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Webster 1913 Edition
Carrier
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
(Zool.)
, a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home.
– Carrier shell
(Zool.)
, 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
, Adj.