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curricle|ˈkʌrɪk(ə)l|
[ad. L. curricul-um running, course, also (race-)chariot, f. curr-ĕre to run.]
†1. A course, running. (In quot. 1682 taken as dim., a short course.) Obs.
1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. (1756) 124 Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 271 The Remedy..is convey'd..by the Curricle of the Blood into the Tracheal Ducts.
2. A light two-wheeled carriage, usually drawn by two horses abreast.
1752H. Walpole Let. 5 Aug. (1903) III. 114 These mountains, where the young gentlemen are forced to drive their curricles with a pair of oxen. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 367 A curricle which is put in motion by the person who sits in it, by turning round a single wheel placed in the front. 1769Chron. in Ann. Reg. 125/2 A man of 70 much intoxicated..rolled against the wheel of their curricle. 1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. 95 Curricles..are..a superior kind of two-wheeled carriage. 1802Projects in Ann. Reg. 773/2 In curricles, single horse chaises, or other carriages. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. xii. 386 He made these periodical journeys..in a kind of open curricle.
3. Comb., as curricle-builder; attrib., as curricle artillery, curricle fire-engine, curricle gun (= mounted on a light two-wheeled carriage for rapid movement).
1786Sir H. Croft Abbey of Kilkhampton 107 Coach-builders, curricle-builders. 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 173 Brass guns on curricle carriages. 1807Southey in Q. Rev. II. 126 Two pieces of curricle artillery. 1878–81E. Matheson Aid Bk. (1889) 579 Curricle fire-engines..may be advantageously fitted with shafts for one horse.
Hence ˈcurricle v.; † curriˈcleer, one who drives a curricle. nonce-wds.
1857Carlyle Misc. IV. 98 (D.) Who is this that comes curricling through the level yellow sunlight, like one of respectability keeping his gig? 1794Sporting Mag. IV. 58 The dashing curricle-eers of the day. 1803Pic Nic No. 5 (1806) I. 177 Our tonish navigators and curricleers. |