carriage vs trolley

carriage

noun
  • A railroad car 

  • The part of a typewriter supporting the paper. 

  • The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid). 

  • A shopping cart. 

  • The act of conveying; carrying. 

  • A (mostly four-wheeled) lighter vehicle chiefly designed to transport people, generally drawn by horse power. 

  • Means of conveyance. 

  • A stroller; a baby carriage. 

  • The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head. 

trolley

noun
  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. 

  • A streetcar or light train. 

  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 

  • A soapbox car. 

  • A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus. 

  • A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system. 

  • A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs. 

  • A handcar. 

  • A hand truck. 

  • A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley. 

verb
  • To bring to by trolley. 

  • To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train). 

  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another. 

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