noun, a light horse-drawn vehicle for one or two people with two or four wheels (COD)
“I can remember going down with Dad in a buggy and getting ice in the back to bring it up for our refrigerator.”
“If you hit that with a buggy, like going fast, it’d just crumple the wheel right in.”
“We went to school the morning after Halloween, and there was a buggy up on the roof of the school … I can’t remember how they got the buggy down, of course.”
“So here come Tom … with a horse, clumpity-clump, and I’d hop in the back of the buggy.”
“My grandmother was a good horsewoman, and we were riding on a buckboard, what you’d see as a buckboard today, but in those days they called it a milk wagon. And it’s sort of like a buggy.”
“Isn’t that Sarah going down in the buggy?”
” … in a lopsided buggy.”
“They’d take a buggy from your barn or something maybe and put it up on the barn roof, like, you know?”
“They were a small light buggy with a seat and one or two horses to pull them.”
“I’d get on the back of the buggy and get a ride home.”
“Yes, they lived there. And she used to drive the horse and cutter out, or the buggy, whatever.”
“One woman, I forget how old she was, she just wanted to go for a ride in the buggy again. Didn’t she?”
“Well a cutter is like a buggy without wheels, it’s like runners. For snow.”
“Sleigh and a cutter and… She’s small, kind of a buggy with runners on it, sleigh runners on it.”
“We did have a horse, later on, and I can tell you about that one. He run away when we were going to mass, but for some reason we were late. It doesn’t matter. When Tom turned him and my sister Sarah grabbed the lines ’cause he was cramped, he came right around, turned the wheels, and he threw us out of the buggy. We landed up in front of … the hotel, landed on the cement.”