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Coachmen

Coachman \Coach"man\, n.; pl. Coachmen.

  1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

  2. (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.

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coachmen

n. (plural of coachman English)

Usage examples of "coachmen".

Forth from the frigid mews come easily swinging carriages guided by short-legged coachmen in flaxen wigs, deep sunk into downy hammercloths, and up behind mount luscious Mercuries bearing sticks of state and wearing cocked hats broadwise, a spectacle for the angels.

Travelling was in a troubled state, and the minds of coachmen were unsettled.

We once knew two famous coachmen (they are dead now, poor fellows) who were twins, and between whom an unaffected and devoted attachment existed.

Pell smacked his lips, and looked complacently round on the assembled coachmen, who evidently regarded him as a species of divinity.

He always said what a curious thing it was that he should have found out, by such a mere accident as his clambering over the palings, that the ghosts of mail-coaches and horses, guards, coachmen, and passengers, were in the habit of making journeys regularly every night.

She made them get some mice and she made them human and then she said, there's got to be balance, and the sisters dragged in the coachmen and she turned them into beetles and then .

He stepped back and nodded with a quite natural authority to the coachmen, who began closing it up.

He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

His old sister-in-law popped in a small bundle, and one of the coachmen helped him into the vehicle.

The Rostovs' servants and coachmen and the orderlies of the wounded officers, after attending to their masters, had supper, fed the horses, and came out into the porches.

But his father--and his uncle--were the most profligate coachmen that ever sat upon a box.

For Diamond's father was not only one of the finest of coachmen to look at, and one of the best of drivers, but one of the most discreet of servants as well.

There was an escort of fifty mounted men in the cocked hats and blue-and-red uniforms of Bonaparte's gendarmerie, coachmen and servants on the box, an officer dismounting hurriedly to open the door.

At the door a coach was waiting, coachmen and footmen in the royal red liveries.