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carry-all, carryall U.S.|ˈkærɪɔːl|
[f. carry v. + all: app. altered by ‘popular etymology’ from carriole.]
a. A light carriage for one horse, usually four-wheeled and capable of holding several persons. Now also, a closed motor vehicle with facing seats along the sides, a station wagon.
1714J. Stoddard Jrnl. in N.-E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. V. 27 Mr. Longuille sent a carryall for us. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. (1839) I. 276 We mounted our carry-all, a carriage which holds four. 1851Hawthorne Twice-told T. I. xvi. 249 A four wheeled carryall, peopled with a round half dozen of pretty girls. 1882Howells in Longm. Mag. I. 45 The neighbouring farmer-folks in buggies and carryalls. 1939in Webster Add. 1940Austral. Motorist 1 Apr. 366/1 The first commercial models to issue from the Vauxhall–Bedford factories since the declaration of war..are a 6 cwt. model, known as the ‘Carryall’, and a ½-ton model. 1977D. J. Narus Great Amer. Woodies & Wagons 42 Chevrolet took a giant leap forward in 1935 and introduced the Suburban Carryall. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. c22/7 (Advt.), Stakes, carryalls, stepvans, [etc.]. 1983Washington Post 15 Aug. a6/2 Their hard-sell advertising drew dune buggies and four-wheel drive carryalls down the beach by the hundreds.
b. In Canada applied to a sleigh (Bartlett). Cf. carriole 2.
c. transf. That which carries everything one has.
1884J. Habberton My Friend Moses 216 A haversack; could he find one of these carry-alls. |