U.S. [f. CARRY v. + ALL: app. altered by ‘popular etymology’ from CARRIOLE.] A light carriage for one horse, usually four-wheeled and capable of holding several persons.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer. (1839), I. 276. We mounted our carry-all, a carriage which holds four.
1851. Hawthorne, Twice-told T., I. xvi. 249. A four-wheeled carryall, peopled with a round half dozen of pretty girls.
1882. W. D. Howells, in Longm. Mag., I. 45. The neighbouring farmer-folks in buggies and carryalls.
b. In Canada applied to a sleigh (Bartlett). Cf. CARRIOLE 2.
c. transf. That which carries everything one has.
1884. J. Habberton, My Friend Moses, 216. A haversack; could he find one of these carry-alls.
