A curricle
The curricle was a popular mode of transportation in Jane Austen's day. Her younger brother, Charles, loved anything with wheels, and when she was twelve, she wrote him a story with every type of vehicle:"Mr. Clifford... travelled in his Coach & Four, for he was a very rich young Man & kept a great many Carriages of which I do not recollect half. I can only remember that he had a Coach, a Chariot, a Chaise, a Landau, a Landeaulet, a Phaeton, a Gig, a Whisky, an Italian Chair, a Buggy, a Curricle, & a wheelbarrow."
~ Jane Austen, Memoirs of Mr. Clifford: An Unfinished Tale
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