Wife in the past getting new carriage (5)
I believe the answer is:
wagon
'carriage' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'wife in the past getting new' is the wordplay.
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'in the past' becomes 'ago' (synonyms).
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'w'+'ago'+'n'='WAGON'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wagon that I've seen before include "Trailer, railway truck" , "Wild West trail vehicle?" , "Four-wheeled goods vehicle" , "Freight truck" , "Wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse" .)