2. Noun. (alternative spelling of carry-on) ¹
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Definition of Carryon
1. a small piece of luggage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carryon
Literary usage of Carryon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Frenchmen in Bengal: Or, The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements by Samuel Charles Hill (1903)
"On the 3rd of September he reached Allahabad, and here left his troop under the
command of M. le Comte de carryon, whilst he went on to Lucknow, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... NORGATE VY will carryon Business at 16 BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN,
opm,o.Ite the end of Henrietta Street. dunn the alterations and ..."
3. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1890)
"Charles however, without money to carryon war, was forced to consent to the
gathering of a free Assembly and of a Scotch Parliament. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"... our indus- - - trial population should fail, crosses the mind -of any one,
there is yet a general expression that business is hardly worth - - carryon? ..."
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