Chariot
['tʃærɪət]
Definition
(noun.) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage.
(noun.) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome.
(verb.) ride in a chariot.
(verb.) transport in a chariot.
Typed by Carlyle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
(v. t.) To convey in a chariot.
Typed by Brooke
Definition
n. a four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage: a car used in ancient warfare: a light four-wheeled carriage with back-seats.—v.t. to carry in a chariot.—v.i. to ride in a chariot.—n. Charioteer′ one who drives a chariot.—v.t. and v.i. to drive or to ride in such.
Checker: Thomas
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of riding in a chariot, foretells that favorable opportunities will present themselves resulting in your good if rightly used by you. To fall or see others fall from one, denotes displacement from high positions.
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Examples
- The Homeric fighting is chariot fighting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She desired me to get into the chariot, and to tell the coachman to drive slowly up and down a little while. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I fear, Bella dear,' said Mrs Lammle one day in the chariot, 'that you will be very hard to please. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I had already Fanny, Julia, and little Fanny, as we called my young niece, to carry home, and only a chariot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- So, they were driven there, and Bella dismissed the chariot; sending a pencilled note by it to Mrs Boffin, that she was with her father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mrs Boffin, insisting that Bella should make tomorrow's expedition in the chariot, she went home in great grandeur. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Even the bonnet she put on, was the bonnet that had mounted into the Boffin chariot at Holloway. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then came the chariot containing Frederick Dorrit, Esquire, and an empty place occupied by Edward Dorrit, Esquire, in wet weather. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I suppose no saint but the one that went up in the chariot of fire could stand the climate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Chariot and demon charioteer were gone by; the votary still lived. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Of these Darius had a force of two hundred, and each chariot had scythes attached to its wheels and to the pole and body of the chariot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A chariot was in waiting with four horses; likewise a coach of the kind called glass coaches. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the course of time, the King was killed in battle, and when his chariot wheels were washed in the pool of Samaria, the dogs licked the blood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The lady's maid and the chariot, the visiting-book and the buttony page, became soon as familiar to Amelia as the humble routine of Brompton. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nor was the agitation by any means diminished, when the scout rushed back with the intelligence that the lady was 'a slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- May the wheels of their chariots be taken off, said the Jew, like those of the host of Pharaoh, that they may drive heavily! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We can not see the long array of chariots and mail-clad men laden with the spoils of conquest, but we can imagine the pageant, after a fashion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I, too, have heard of his gallant feats of prowess in chariots and _vis-à-vis! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That individual proceeded,-- We're eleven strong men, and there's both horses and chariots amang us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I sought out Dejah Thoris in the throng of departing chariots, but she turned her shoulder to me, and I could see the red blood mount to her cheek. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The chariots drove full tilt at the infantry mass and tried to break it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a time, therefore, the old families and country gentility sent their servants and their luggage by train, but themselves jogged along the old post-roads in the family chariots. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You saw demure chariots at her door, out of which stepped very great people. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The chariots themselves were large, commodious, and gorgeously decorated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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