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carriage

noun as in delivery of freight

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In return, Mexico offered to ship to Austria various objects from Maximilian’s ill-fated reign, including a gilded carriage in which he and his wife, Carlota, tooled around the capital.

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In the end, both Fox and NBCUniversal struck new carriage contracts without their channels going dark.

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Photos published by the outlet showed several carriages overturned, and others crushed.

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Portugal's Air and Rail Accident Investigations Bureau said an underground cable - which acted as a counterweight between two carriages and broke, prompting the crash - was defective and had never been certified for passenger transportation.

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According to the GPIAAF's note, the Gloria's driver had activated the funicular's brakes, but those were unable to halt the carriage without the counterweight system's help.

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