Irish car

Noun

 * 1)  A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle in which passengers sit on a pair of benches.
 * 2) * 1792,, 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.
 * 1) * 1908,, letter, 25 November:
 * I got into an absurd Irish car & drove straight off.