David Crystal writes of a toll-board sign in Porthmadog in Wales from the early nineteenth century, which begins thus: "For every Horse or other Beast of Draught drawing any Coach, Sociable, Berlin, Landau, Chariot, Vis-a-Vis, Chaise, Calash, Chais-marine, Curricle, Chair, Gig, Whisky, Caravan, Hearse, Litter, Waggon, Wain, Cart, Dray, or other Carriage, any Sum not exceeding One Shilling:" (By Hook or By Crook, p 38)
Or... "Two-wheeled, horse-drawn carts known as calashes continually came and went." --Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 2
David Crystal writes of a toll-board sign in Porthmadog in Wales from the early nineteenth century, which begins thus: "For every Horse or other Beast of Draught drawing any Coach, Sociable, Berlin, Landau, Chariot, Vis-a-Vis, Chaise, Calash, Chais-marine, Curricle, Chair, Gig, Whisky, Caravan, Hearse, Litter, Waggon, Wain, Cart, Dray, or other Carriage, any Sum not exceeding One Shilling:"
(By Hook or By Crook, p 38)
Or... "Two-wheeled, horse-drawn carts known as calashes continually came and went."
--Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, 2
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