Carriage

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.

(2): (n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.

(3): (n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.

(4): (n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.

(5): (n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.

(6): (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.

(7): (n.) That which carries of conveys,

(8): (n.) The price or expense of carrying.

(9): (n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.

(10): (n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.

King James Dictionary

Carriage n.

1. The act of carrying, bearing, transporting, or conveying as the carriage of sounds. 2. The act of taking by an enemy conquest acquisition. 3. That which carries, especially on wheels a vehicle. This is a general term for a coach, chariot, chaise, gig, sulkey, or other vehicle on wheels, as a cannon-carriage on trucks, a block-carriage for mortars, and a truck-carriage. Appropriately the word is applied to a coach and carts and wagons are rarely or never called carriages. 4. The price or expense of carrying. 5. That which is carried burden as baggage, vessels, furniture, &c.

And David left his carriage in the hands of the keeper of the carriage.  1 Samuel 17 .

6. In a moral sense, the manner of carrying ones self behavior conduct deportment personal manners. 7. Measures practices management.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

This does not appear to be ever used in the scriptures in the modern sense of the word, but signifies 'the thing carried,' 'baggage.'  Judges 18:21;  1 Samuel 17:22;  Isaiah 10:28;  Acts 21:15 . The meaning in  Isaiah 46:1 is probably that the idols which were once 'carried' with joy in festal processions (cf.   Amos 5:26 ) are now 'lifted up as loads' to be carried on beasts of burden.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Carriage. This word signifies what we now call "Baggage". In the margin of  1 Samuel 17:20, and  1 Samuel 26:5-7, and there only, "carriage" is employed in the sense of A Wagon or Cart.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Judges 18:21  Isaiah 46:1  1 Samuel 17:22  Isaiah 10:28  1 Samuel 10:22 Acts 21:15

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CARRIAGE . This word is always used in the AV [Note: Authorized Version.] in the literal sense of ‘something carried,’ never in the modern sense of a vehicle used for carrying. Thus   Acts 21:15 ‘we took up our carriages’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘baggage’).

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Judges 18:21 1 Samuel 17:22 Isaiah 10:28 Isaiah 46:1 Acts 21:15

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

In the Bible, usually means the baggage which formed the burden of a man of beast,  Acts 21:15 . Once it seems to indicate a circular trench or rampart of baggage, etc., around a camp, /  1 Samuel 17:20 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kar´ij ( כּלי , kelı̄ , כּבוּדּה , kebhuddāh , נשׂוּאה , nesū'āh  ; ἐπισκευασάμενοι , episkeuasámenoi  ; the Revised Version (British and American) "We took up our baggage"; the American Revised Version, margin "made ready"): One or the other of the above words occurs in six different places and all have been translated in the King James Version by "carriage" in its obsolete meaning ( Judges 18:21;  1 Samuel 17:22 (twice);   Isaiah 10:28;  Isaiah 46:1;  Acts 21:15 ). In the Revised Version (British and American) and the American Standard Revised Version these are translated by the more modern expressions "goods," "baggage," or "the things that you carried." In  1 Samuel 17:20 the King James Version margin"place of the carriage" occurs as the equivalent of "trench." The Hebrew ma'gālāh may mean "the place of wagons" as translated in the Revised Version (British and American), as it is not at all improbable that the encampment was surrounded by the baggage train.