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the axles. Car′riage-step. A step, usually on a jointed dependent frame, to afford means for mounting into a carriage. A carriage-step to be let down and raised by the opening and closing of the carriage-door was patented in England by Thomason in 1799. Carriage-top. 1. The cover of a carriage. Permanent in coaches; double calash in barouches and landaus; calash in some gigs, buggies, phaetons, etc.; curtained in ambulances and spring-wagons. 2. A shifting-rail on the back anthe cork with its retractor is drawn from the bottle. Cork-pull. Corkscrew. Cork′screw. The double-screw which entered the cork by rotation, and then withdrew it by a continued or reversed circular motion, was patented in England by Thomason, 1802. Cork′screw-stair′case. A winding stairs with a solid newel. Cor′liss-en′gine. A form of steam-engine having a variable and automatic cut-off of peculiar character. (See cut-off.) It has two inlet and two exhaust valves,