Curricle
[kʌrikl]
Definition
(n.) A small or short course.
(n.) A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.
Typed by Damian
Definition
n. a two-wheeled open chaise drawn by two horses abreast: a chariot.—n. Curric′ulum a course esp. the course of study at a university.
Checker: Neil
Examples
- Three in a curricle? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Denis Johnson patented in England in 1818 a similar vehicle which he named the Pedestrian Curricle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He drove his curricle; he drank his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian stories, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They sat talking on indifferent subjects for about an hour, and then drove off in his lordship's curricle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Lord Berwick, like Lord Barrymore, wanted a tiger; while Somerset required a man whose curricle he could drive and whose money he could borrow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- One day Deerhurst insisted on my accompanying him and Sophia in his curricle, to go out of town somewhere to dinner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Did not you know, said Willoughby, that we had been out in my curricle? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But then his curricle! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I called out to him by his name, and he came up to the curricle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Sophia has made a new conquest of an elderly gentleman in a curricle, with a coronet on it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Rushworth mentioned his curricle. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- To our inquiry how her curricle-beau went on, she answered, Oh! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Yes, to be sure, I should like to drive out in his curricle, of all things. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- So it is, quite abominable; and, for my part, I hate him, and his curricle too, good-natured Sophia replied. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Checker: Neil