EQUIPAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equipage mean? 

• EQUIPAGE (noun)
  The noun EQUIPAGE has 2 senses:

1. equipment and supplies of a military force

2. a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses

  Familiarity information: EQUIPAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUIPAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Equipment and supplies of a military force

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

equipage; materiel

Hypernyms ("equipage" is a kind of...):

equipment (an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equipage"):

baggage (the portable equipment and supplies of an army)

marching order (equipage for marching)

Derivation:

equip (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carriage; equipage; rig

Hypernyms ("equipage" is a kind of...):

horse-drawn vehicle (a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses)

Meronyms (parts of "equipage"):

rumble (a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage)

axletree (a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equipage"):

brougham (light carriage; pulled by a single horse)

troika (a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast)

trap (a light two-wheeled carriage)

surrey (a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats)

stanhope (a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat)

post chaise (closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used to transport passengers and mail)

landau (a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately)

hansom; hansom cab (a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers)

hackney; hackney carriage; hackney coach (a carriage for hire)

gig (small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood)

gharry (a horse-drawn carriage in India)

droshky; drosky (an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia)

coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand (a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver)

clarence (a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers)

chariot (a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage)

chaise; shay (a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse)

caroche (a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century)

cab; cabriolet (small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood)

buggy; roadster (a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse)

buckboard (an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles)

barouche (a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top)

 Context examples 

It was too early in the morning for visitors, and besides, the equipage did not answer to that of any of their neighbours.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There were more men and many women and children, forty souls of them, and all heavily burdened with camp equipage and outfit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sir Henry Russell's widow, indeed, has no honours to distinguish her arms, but still it is a handsome equipage, and no doubt is well known to convey a Miss Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For, although he queen had ordered a little equipage of all things necessary for me, while I was in her service, yet my ideas were wholly taken up with what I saw on every side of me, and I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

'Tis James! was uttered at the same moment by Catherine; and, on catching the young men's eyes, the horse was immediately checked with a violence which almost threw him on his haunches, and the servant having now scampered up, the gentlemen jumped out, and the equipage was delivered to his care.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet, says he, I dare engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour; they contrive little nests and burrows, that they call houses and cities; they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they dispute, they cheat, they betray!

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thorpe's ideas then all reverted to the merits of his own equipage, and she was called on to admire the spirit and freedom with which his horse moved along, and the ease which his paces, as well as the excellence of the springs, gave the motion of the carriage.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

His knowledge and her ignorance of the subject, his rapidity of expression, and her diffidence of herself put that out of her power; she could strike out nothing new in commendation, but she readily echoed whatever he chose to assert, and it was finally settled between them without any difficulty that his equipage was altogether the most complete of its kind in England, his carriage the neatest, his horse the best goer, and himself the best coachman.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)