by Gatsbae January 26, 2018
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Originally used in reference to a type writer moving to the next line. Now completely used out of context to make fun of old people who still use the term.
by Stinky Grampa August 25, 2010
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(noun, USA/SAE Standard) A bolt having a round head with a square, ribbed, or fluted boss underneath it. The function of the boss being to bite into timber to prevent the bolt turning while the nut is being tightened.
This term is often, and wrongly, considered interchangeable with "coach bolt", which is UK/Australian slang for a lag bolt. This may seem a trivial inconsistency to the layman, but is a mixup which has cost innumerable companies lots of money and confused a huge number of people.
One may perform a quick test to determine whether an item is a carriage bolt or lag bolt/lag screw: Is it driven (tightened) by its head or can only nuts be driven up it? If the former, it's a carriage bolt, if the latter, it's <i>probably</i> a lag bolt.
Origin: Old French <i>cariage</i>, from <i>carier</i> ‘carry’; bolt (unchanged), Old English. There is no reliable information as to whether the carriage bolt got its descriptor through the manufacture of carriages/coaches or whether 'carriage' refers to the fact that such a bolt is a load-bearing item.
This term is often, and wrongly, considered interchangeable with "coach bolt", which is UK/Australian slang for a lag bolt. This may seem a trivial inconsistency to the layman, but is a mixup which has cost innumerable companies lots of money and confused a huge number of people.
One may perform a quick test to determine whether an item is a carriage bolt or lag bolt/lag screw: Is it driven (tightened) by its head or can only nuts be driven up it? If the former, it's a carriage bolt, if the latter, it's <i>probably</i> a lag bolt.
Origin: Old French <i>cariage</i>, from <i>carier</i> ‘carry’; bolt (unchanged), Old English. There is no reliable information as to whether the carriage bolt got its descriptor through the manufacture of carriages/coaches or whether 'carriage' refers to the fact that such a bolt is a load-bearing item.
Goddamn, I hate these translated instruction manuals. This thing just tried to tell me to use a screwdriver to tighten a carriage bolt!
by Ike January 26, 2005
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by doog-larry March 29, 2006
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In my small town of 300 people we have a group of new mothers who push their baby carriages around the town for exercise. Our town now call them the Carriage-Cruisers
by KRYSANN October 18, 2006
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Me "Why not just get a bus and save money"
Mark "I must contest, I refuse to travel on the peasant carriage"
Me: "Thou must protest as your financial situation is dyer"
Mark "Once yonder giro is cashed ones means of transportation would become more favourable kind sir"
Mark "I must contest, I refuse to travel on the peasant carriage"
Me: "Thou must protest as your financial situation is dyer"
Mark "Once yonder giro is cashed ones means of transportation would become more favourable kind sir"
by Syharrisonb July 10, 2011
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A vehicle that is used to drive others around, much like a taxi cab, but the fare is paid with meat instead of currency.
Justin: "Hey can you drive me to the airport in your meat carriage?"
Evan: "Yeah, but it will cost you 3 packs of sausages."
Justin: "Fair enough."
Evan: "Yeah, but it will cost you 3 packs of sausages."
Justin: "Fair enough."
by meattaxi October 14, 2015
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