a vehicle serving to convey persons, goods, merchandises, and other things, from one place to another.

For the construction and mechanical principles of wheel carriages, 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 of 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, transom, bolts, plates, trainbands, bridges, bed, hooks, trunion holes, and cap-square.

Block-Carriage, a cart made on purpose for carrying mortars and their beds from place to place.

Truck-Carriage, two short planks of wood, supported on two axletrees, having four trucks of solid wood for carrying mortars or guns upon battery, where their own carriages cannot go. They are drawn by men.