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/kˈæriər pˈɪdʒən/ Listen

noun

Carrier n.

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. "The air which is but... a carrier of the sounds."

One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. "The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures."

(Mach.) That which drives or carries; as:

(a)

A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog.

(b)

A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Carrier pigeon (Zool.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home.

Carrier shell (Zool.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to its own shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it.

Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.

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"Carrier pigeon" Quotes from Famous Books

... "A carrier pigeon, you mean!" cried Larry. "Why, how fine you planned it, Tony. Just to think of it, having the news flashed straight home, over miles and miles of swamps. But what if a hawk got your bird, ...

— Chums in Dixie - or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat • St. George Rathborne

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... night, and did early resolve to send a carrier pigeon unto the Castle to notify that I must lie where I was, being unable to set forward. But on rising I found myself not so ill that I need put others to inconvenience; so I did but order a cab and set forth at three in the afternoon, in pouring rain. My hostess ...

— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

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... we have seen in distinguishing the fact known from the stimulus. As soon as we pass beyond the simple case of question and answer, the definition of knowledge by means of behaviour demands the consideration of purpose. A carrier pigeon flies home, and so we say it "knows" the way. But if it merely flew to some place at random, we should not say that it "knew" the way to that place, any more than a stone rolling down hill knows the way to ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

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... ill night, and did early resolve to send a carrier pigeon unto the Castle to notify that I must lie where I was, being unable to set forward. But on rising I found myself not so ill that I need put others to inconvenience; so I did but order a cab and set forth at three in the ...

— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

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... duck is highly remarkable (see figure 39, of skull); and its peculiar beak has been inherited at least since the year 1676. This structure is evidently analogous with that described in the Bagadotten carrier pigeon. Mr. Brent (8/14. 'Poultry Chronicle' 1855 volume 3 page 512.) says that, when Hook-billed ducks are crossed with common ducks, "many young ones are produced with the upper mandible shorter than the lower, which not unfrequently causes the death of the bird." With ducks a tuft ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

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