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- wainwright: making wagons. (the Latin word for a two-wheeled wagon is carpentum, the maker of which was a carpenter.) (Wright is the agent form of the...
- chariot, which may have been called karbantos in Gaulish (compare Latin carpentum), was a biga that measured approximately 2 m (6 ft 6+3⁄4 in) in width...
- Roman colony to be named after a Roman woman. In 51 AD, she was given a carpentum: a ceremonial carriage usually reserved for priests such as the Vestal...
- 'hamper', Welche charpin ‘large osier basket’, Friul čharpint ‘cart axle’ L carpentum, fr Gaul. carbanto 'carriage', fr carbos 'basket' Ir carbat, Sc carbad...
- fasces in deference. The Vestals had unique, exclusive rights to use a carpentum, an enclosed, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage; some Roman sources remark...
- wheels were removed for easier storage. A more luxurious version, the carpentum, transported women and officials. It had an arched overhead covering of...
- including an image to appear in the circus, where it might be displa**** in a carpentum (a kind of covered wagon) or currus elephantorum (a cart drawn by elephants)...
- equal to a wainwright. The roots of carpentārĭus come from the Latin carpentum, meaning a two-wheeled carriage or a form of chariot not used directly...
- other, the 'local road', rout [or ród], on which at least one carpat/carpentum and two riders can p**** side by side as a regional main road, the 'connecting...