vecture

English

Etymology

From Latin vectūra, from vehere, vectum (“to carry”). Doublet of vettura and voiture.

Noun

vecture

(obsolete) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
  the vecture or carriage

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vecture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

vectūre

vocative masculine singular of vectūrus

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