BERLIN  , a four-wheeled

carriage with a separate hooded seat behind, detached from the body of the vehicle; so called from having been first used in Berlin . It was designed about 167o, by a Piedmontese architect in the service of the elector of Brandenburg . It was used as a travelling carriage, and Swift refers to it in his advice to authors " who scribble in a berlin." As an adjective, the word is used to indicate a special kind of goods, originally made in Berlin, of which the best known is Berlin wool . A Berlin warehouse is a shop for the sale of wools and fancy goods (cf . Italian warehouse) . The spelling " berlin is also used by Sir Walter Scott for the " birlinn," a large Gaelic rowing-boat .