CARRIAGE, a vehicle serving to convey persons, goods, merchandises, and other things from one place to another.
For the construction and mechanical principles of wheel-carrages, see MECHANICS.
CARRIAGE of a cannon, the frame or timber-work on which it is mounted, serving to point it for shooting, or to carry it from one place to another. It is made of two planks of wood, commonly one half the length of the gun, called the cheeks, and joined by three wooden transoms, strengthened with three bolts of iron. It is mounted on two wheels; but on a march has two fore-wheels, with limbers added. The principal parts of a carriage are the cheeks, transoms, bolts, plates, train, bands, bridge, bed, hooks, trunnion-holes, and capsquare.