CARRIER
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Car"ri*er (?), n. [From Carry.] 1. One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
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The air which is but . . . a carrier of the sounds.
Bacon.
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2. One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
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The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
Swift.
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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.
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Carrier pigeon (Zo&ö;l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. -- Carrier shell (Zo&ö;l.), 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.
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