Irish car

English Noun en now rare historical A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches. from 17th c. 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 188: Then we went, my Lord on horseback and the rest of us partly walking, partly on a most social machine, the Irish car, running upon two low, broad wheels, covered by a spacious platform rendered comfortable by carpeting fixed over it, and on the three sides not next the horse, boards to support the feet on. 1908, Leonard Woolf, letter, 25 November: I got into an absurd Irish car & drove straight off.