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growler
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synonyms: clarence, hansom ???
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Definition:1) a type of carriage that was popular in the early 19th century. It is a closed, four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle with a projecting glass front and seats for four passengers inside. The driver sat at the front, outside the carriage. [...] The Brougham was a lighter, two-passenger version originally commissioned by Lord Brougham.In time, second-hand clarences came to be used as hackney carriages, earning the nickname 'growler' from the sound they made on London's cobbled streets.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike---2) A small iceberg less than 2 meters (6.6 feet) across that floats with less than 1 meter (3.3 feet) showing above watertext from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo 1: By nikoretro from Ft. Myers, FL, USA - Horse (Cleveland Bay) Drawn Clarence (Brougham) Carriage & Victoria Memorial, Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, CC BY-SA 2.0,photo 2: by Serge Ouachée [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )]
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The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet.
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I seen icebergs plenty, growlers.
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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