1. Carriage (CARRIAGE 1) or conveyance by wheeled vehicles.
1733. W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 30. Ashes or Soot … are seldom used, because they generally lie too distant for Wheel Carriage from London.
1765. Museum Rust., IV. 247. Where the country proves clay, marl, or rich or spungy soil,… and yet much wheel-carriage necessary, and no turnpike.
2. A carriage (CARRIAGE 23) moving on wheels, a wheeled vehicle; also as a part of a machine (CARRIAGE 29).
1733. W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 319. Its fore-part lying on the Stock of the Wheel-Carriage as the Fallow-plough does.
1756. Washington, Lett., Writ. 1889, I. 369. The only gap of the Alleghany at present made passable for wheel-carriages.
1845. G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., IV. 123. The wheel-carriage on which the roller rests is then wheeled onward.
1883. S. C. Hall, Retrospect, II. 304. The roads … that led from town to town were barely passable to wheel-carriages.
