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Definition of Curricle
1. n. A small or short course.
Definition of Curricle
1. Noun. A light two wheeled carriage large enough for the driver and a passenger and drawn by a carefully-matched pair. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curricle
1. a light carriage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curricle
Literary usage of Curricle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hermit in London: Or Sketches of English Manners by Felix M'Donogh (1820)
"In this he failed: but I was now his curricle companion, and destined to pass
the morning ... All this time a crowd was round the curricle, listening to his ..."
2. Hints on Driving by Charles Lewis William Morley Knight (1902)
"curricle AND CAPE-CART. WHEN it is desired to drive a pair, ... That known as
curricle, in which a bar passing from one horse to the other over the ..."
3. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1812)
"C - 'S NEW curricle. Tropic, one day, in his way to Long Acre, By chance met a
friend — nn unmannerly Quaker ; *' Come with me," said Tom, " my kind Sir, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft by Thomas Holcroft, William Hazlitt (1816)
"Soon afterwards, I was in some danger of being run over by B—— D , his son-in-law,
driving a kept woman furiously in a curricle. The coincidence of these ..."
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