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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A vehicle, especially an all-terrain vehicle, having four wheels.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A carriage with four wheels; especially, a four-wheeled cab.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun colloq., colloq., colloq. A vehicle having four wheels

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart.
  • noun Any vehicle with four wheels.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a hackney carriage with four wheels

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  • This type of carriage was used a lot in Holmes's time.

    July 5, 2012