Chaise

A chaise, sometimes called chay or shay, is a lightweight two- or four-wheeled carriage. It is made for one or two people. It is used for travel or leisure. It has a folding hood or calash top.^[1] The name, in use in England before 1700, came from the French word [“chaise”] (meaning “chair”) through a transfer from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle.^[2]

A one-horse chaise

A three-wheeled "Handchaise", Germany, around 1900, designed to be pushed by a person

References

1. Cowie, L.W. (1996). The Wordsworth Dictionary of British Social History. Wordsworth Reference. p. 55. ISBN 1-85326-378-8.
2. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chaise" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 802.