Definition of Carreir
Car"ri*er (?), n. [From
Carry.] 1. One who, or that which,
carries or conveys; a messenger.
The air which is but . . . a carrier of the
sounds.
Bacon.
2. One who is employed, or makes it his
business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a
teamster.
The roads are crowded with carriers, laden
with rich manufactures.
Swift.
3. (Mach.) That which drives or
carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an
object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog.
(b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding
machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the
cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the
barrel.
Carrier pigeon (Zoöl.), a
variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a
distant point to to its home. -- Carrier
shell (Zoöl.), a univalve shell of the
genus Phorus; -- so called because it fastens bits of
stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as
almost to conceal it. -- Common carrier
(Law.) See under Common,
a.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A person or object that carries something else. (aircraft carrier, armored personnel carrier)
- A company in the business of shipping freight.
- A person or animal that transmits a disease to others without itself contracting the disease.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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