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A man who drives a coach (or carriage)
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coachman
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from coach (n.) + man (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A coachman has to drive, a groom has to open the door, a peon has to shout warnings. ▪ A rider had come toward us and was talking to the coachman . ▪ He is murdered by a peasant, Gaspard, whose child has been killed by the furious ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A coachman is a man whose business it is to drive a coach , a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of more than one passenger — and of mail — and covered for protection from the elements. He has also been called a coachee , coachy or whip .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coachman \Coach"man\, n.; pl. Coachmen . A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. (Zo["o]l.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ( Dutes auriga ); -- called also charioteer . The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who drives a coach, a coach driver.
Usage examples of coachman.
Finding himself grievously wounded, and the blood flowing apace, he, with such presence of mind as cannot be sufficiently admired, instead of proceeding to the palace, which was at some distance, ordered the coachman to return to Junqueria, where his principal surgeon resided, and there his wounds were immediately dressed.
Burning with amorous passion I thought I would take the opportunity, and, to lose no time, as the coachman was driving fast, I took her hand and pressed it softly.
The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world without fuss or complications, on sickly young women who fancied themselves to be ill days before their time, and ended by suffering cross births and hard labours.
Charles had been a coachman or a groom, Asey bet, as he ducked behind a clump of bushes and watched the bow - legged little man inarch over to the roadster and play the beam of his flashlight around it, and then over the contents of the seat.
The coachman held his hand out to Ava, which she took and quickly ducked inside, landing on a thickly padded velvet squab, the same deep red color of the silk covered walls.
On the box seat was a French servant who had begged me to allow him to wait on me for the journey in return for a seat beside the coachman.
Whereupon the coachman stood up, put the whip in its socket, opened the locker beneath the box seat, and produced two horse-pistols and a blunderbuss, which he lay on the roof of the vehicle.
The armed coachman, assailed from back and front, fired his blunderbuss into the air, and then gave in for very fear.
Next morning at day-break I was at her door with her boots in my hand just as their coachman came to call them.
In November, 1767, as I was going from Pampeluna to Madrid, my coachman, Andrea Capello, stopped for us to dine in a town of Old Castille.
The latter property he appears to have transferred to the front of the old brown landau, where the aged coachman, with nose as flat as the ace of clubs, sits, transfixed and rigid as the curls of his caxon, from three till six every Sunday evening, urging on a cabbage-fed pair of ancient prods, which no exertion of the venerable Jehu has been able for the last seven years to provoke into a trot from Hyde park gate to that of Cumberland and back again.
The coachman touched his hat with his whip in acknowledgement of the copartnership in humanitarianism, and deftly steered his horses into the open street.
A carriage lying overturned on the road outside an inn made my coachman stop a short while, and this accident which made the poor driver curse overwhelmed me with joy, for in these few moments I obtained all the favours that she could possibly give under the circumstances.
My coachman was a Ukrainian on whose fidelity I could rely, but I knew that it would be necessary for me to be off with the old love before I was on with the new.
As Clara was putting her impatient question for the second time, Dete and Heidi arrived at the front door, and the former inquired of the coachman, who had just got down from his box, if it was too late to see Fraulein Rottenmeier.