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▪ I. coach, n.|kəʊtʃ|
Forms: 6 cochee, (coch, coyche, cosche), 6–7 coche, coatch(e, 6– coach.
[c gray][In 16th c. coche, a. F. coche (masc., in 16th c. occas. fem.). Found since 16th c. in nearly all European langs.: cf. Sp. and Pg. coche, It. cocchio, Wallachian cocie; Ger. kutsche (in 16th c. also kotsche), Du. koets; Boh. koč. Pol. kocz, etc. All originally from Magyar kocsi, formerly also written kotsi, (pronounced kɔtʃi[/c]), ‘ungaricum currum [quem] kotczi vulgo vocant’ (anno 1560), used in Hungary from the reign of King Matthias Corvinus, 1458–90. Kocsi is in form an adjective, meaning app. ‘of Kocs |kɔtʃ|’ a place south of Komorn, between Raab and Buda; the full original name (still used in 18th century) being kocsi szeker i.e. ‘Kocs cart’ (car, wagon), rendered in Lat. in 1499 cocius currus, in 1526 currus kotsi. Hence, also, the early equivalents in other langs.: Boh. kočí vůz (Kotsh car), shortened to kočí, koč; Ger. 16th c. cotschie- or cotschy wagen, cotzie wagen, gotschiwagen, gutschiwagen, shortened to gotschi, gutschi, gutsche, kotsche, kutze, kutsche; earlier Du. kotsie-, koetsie-, koets-waghen, shortened to kotsie (Kilian), koetsie, koets. Cf. also 16th c. Eng. cochee. The Sp., Pg. and F. coche, were app. immediately from 16th c. Ger. kotsche.
See full historical details collected by Hildebrand in Grimm, s.v. Kutsche.]
1. a. A large kind of carriage: in 16th and 17th centuries, usually a state carriage of royalty or people of quality (still occasionally used, as e.g. the Lord Mayor's coach); now, usually, a large close carriage with four wheels, with seats inside, and several outside, used for public conveyance of passengers (see stage-coach). Hence to take coach (obs.).
It does not appear certain what was the precise new feature that distinguished the Hungarian kocsi, and led to its adoption throughout Europe. A German picture of ‘ein ungerische gutsche,’ after 1550, shows it still without covering, and not suspended on springs. (Hildebrand in Grimm.)
1556Sir P. Hoby Let. fr. Bisham, Berks. in Burgon Life Gresham (1839) I. 483 Peradventure my Lady..cannot ride. Thereto will I provide this remedy,—to sende her my coche. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 251 They haue their horselitters, Cochees, and charettes right notable. 1562Diurnal of Occurr. 4 May, My Lord Arrane was convoyijt in the quenis graces cosche. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie Conclus. (Arb.) 313 Aniceris..a very actiue..man in driuing of a Princes Charriot or Coche. 1589R. Robinson Gold. Mirr. (1850) 57 Her coyche was burn'd, that day she married was. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 16 The roiall Dame..for her coche doth call. 1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes iv. (Arb.) 31 In euery street, carts and Coaches make such a thundring. 1615Stow Eng. Chron. Jas. I an. 1605 867/2 In the yeere 1564 Guylliam Boonen, a dutchman, became the Queene's Coachmanne, and was the first that brought the vse of Coaches into England..Lastly, even at this time, 1605, began the ordinary vse of Caroaches. 1621Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 20, I..took back the bay gelding..for my coche. 1674C. Cotton Fair One of Tunis 167 My Aunt..I found ready to take coach. 1676Durfey Mad. Fickle ii. i, I'le go hire a Coach, and into the Country immediately. a1689A. Behn Unf. Happy Lady Wks. 1718 II. 355 Sir William took coach with his Sister. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4672/1 The Procession was closed by the Czar's Coach of State. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 195 ⁋11 Euery coach that rattled through the street. 1804Jane Austen Watsons (1879) 297 The Edwardes were people of fortune..and kept their coach. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Self-Reliance Wks. (Bohn) I. 36 The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
b. With qualifications, as curtain, glass, hackney, mail, mourning, stage-coach: see these; also slow-coach, fig. by-coach, a supplementary or extra coach, besides the usual service (cf. Ger. Beiwagen); long coach, a coach running long stages: cf. short-stage.
1732in Chambers Dom. Ann. Scot. III. 408 The Stage Coach continues to go from the Cannongate for London..and if any gentleman wants a by-coach, they may call at Alexander Forsyth's. 1802Naval Chron. VII. 361 Many went away in the long coaches.
c. Sometimes used for the passengers by a coach.
c1840Mod. ‘Will gentlemen please to alight? The coach dines here.’
d. A railway carriage: in U.S. used esp. of one that is not a sleeping car (see quots.).
1832Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. I. 364/1 The railway coaches are more commodious than others. 1833Ibid. II. 284/3 The Dalkeith shopkeeper, who has just descended from one of the incoming coaches. 1839E. Hall Diary in O.A. Sherrard Two Vict. Girls (1966) i. 14 The door of one of the coaches [of the train] was opened and we..were ushered into it. 1866Dickens Mugby Junction (Hoppe), We [railway officials] don't call them carriages, we call them ‘coaches’. 1880Webster Supp., Coach, a railway car; applied in the U.S. especially to a sleeping-car. a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Coach, a first class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing room car, or second class. 1887C. B. George 40 Years on Rail (1888) iv. 67 The train consisted of a baggage-car and two passenger coaches. 1909Webster, Coach,..a first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc.; sometimes, loosely, any passenger car. 1936Discovery Nov. 356/1 The first two coaches are the power cars, each containing a 1,200 b.h.p. engine. 1948Chicago Daily News 17 Aug. 1/3 Three coaches, three sleepers and a diner left the tracks.
e. A single-decker bus.
1923Michelin Guide to Gt. Britain (ed. 7) p. ii, Some owners of motor coaches. Ibid., This list..excludes coaches, etc., carrying less than eighteen persons. 1930Autocar 5 Sept. 459 What will happen to some of the long distance motor coach services if the forthcoming 30 m.p.h. limit is properly enforced? We followed one doing just over 50 m.p.h. on the narrow stretch south of Baldock... The coach kept well to its own side without wobbling. 1932N. Mitford Christmas Pudding xiv. 221 There are trains..and road coaches. 1955Times 23 June 16/2 No passenger not in possession of such tickets will be admitted to the car park. Coaches will not be accepted for this park.
f. Economy or tourist class, on a passenger aircraft. Freq. attrib. and as adv. U.S.
1949A.S.T.A. Travel News XVIII. 17/1 The cost of flying air coach passengers is small compared with the cost of flying regular passengers. When you travel air coach your only reservation is your ticket and you are served no meals. 1960Flying (N.Y.) July 86/3 Did you know it costs $10 less to fly ‘coach’ from New York to Las Vegas by way of Los Angeles than for a direct New York–Las Vegas flight? 1973Black Panther 20 Oct. 11/2 There was a gaping, smoking rent between first class and the coach section. 1985Washington Post 2 Jan. c13/5 Dan Rather flew coach to Des Moines for the Iowa caucuses while..Tom Brokaw sat up in first class.
2. Naut. An apartment near the stern of a man of war, usually occupied by the captain.
1660Pepys Diary 3 May, The Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach. Ibid. (1828) I. 94 The King supped alone in the coach. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 120 Cuddie, Fore-castle, Coaches. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 304 Swab the Coach fore and aft. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Coach, or Couch, a sort of..apartment in a large ship of war near the stern. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of the quarter-deck, and the roof of it by the poop. c1850Rudim. Navig. 107 Coach or couch. An apartment before the captain's cabin.
3. a. University colloq. A private tutor who prepares a candidate for an examination.
1848Clough Bothie of T. Poems (1863) 113 Kitcat, a Trinity coach, has a party at Drumnadrochet. 1850F. Smedley F. Fairlegh xxix. 251 Besides the regular college tutor, I secured the assistance of what, in the slang of the day, we irreverently termed ‘a coach’. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. vi. (D.), Warham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. 1878Examiner 2 Mar. 267/2 There are two orders of private tutors—‘pass coaches’ and ‘honour coaches’.
b. transf. One who trains others for an athletic contest, esp. a boat-race.
1885Manch. Guardian 28 Mar. 6/6 A thoroughly clever coach was able to advise them from first to last. Under his careful tuition the crew have improved steadily. 1888F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Nov. 645 To call in professional ‘coaches’ to teach the defence of the wicket.
c. A tame bullock or horse used as a decoy in catching wild cattle or horses. Austral.
1873Ranken Australia vi. 110 To get them [sc. wild cattle], a party of stockmen take a small herd of quiet cattle, ‘coaches’.
4. Phrases. coach and four, and six: a coach drawn by four or six horses. Hence to drive a coach and six (or four) through (an act of Parliament, etc.).
[1625in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 25 All their coaches furnished with six horses, which comes altogether now in fashion.] 1684Otway Atheist v. i, Is there not a hole in my belly, that you may turn a coach-and-six in? 1700Welwood Mem. (ed. 3) 230 This man [Rice] was often heard to say, before he came to be a judge, That he would drive a Coach and Six horses through the Act of Settlement. 1726Gay in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 61 Mr. Pope..coming..from Lord Bolingbroke's in his coach and six. 1877N.W. Lincolnsh. Gloss., Coach and six. If a person wishes to describe any small thing as very large it is common to say that it is big enough to turn a coach-and-six in. 1882F. Pollock in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 364 The art of driving a coach and four through an Act of Parliament was then practised with far more boldness than is possible now.
5. Comb.
a. attributive, as coach-body, coach-boot (see boot n.3 4), coach-door, coach-harness, coach-hide, coach-hire, coach-jade, coach-mare, coach-passenger, coach-steed, coach-step, coach-top;
b. objective and obj. genit., as coach-builder, coach-building, coach-drawer, coach-driver, coach-maker, coach-making, coach-painter, coach-riding n. and adj.;
c. instrumental, as coach-crowded adj.
1861Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 184 He is a *coach-body maker by business.
1801W. Felton Carriages I. Introd. 18 The present master *Coach-builders.
Ibid. 20 The different branches appertaining to *Coach-building. 1855Mrs. Gaskell North & S. ii, The Germans were..very respectable coach builders.
1785Cowper Tiroc. 745 Some *coach-crowded door.
1756–7Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 412 Received at his *coach door by four gentlemen, two pages, and a harbinger.
1849Southey Comm-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. 639 Stags as *Coach-drawers.
1755Johnson Pref., Compounded or double words I have seldom noted..Of thieflike or *coachdriver no notice was needed, because the primitives contain the meaning of the compounds.
1801W. Felton Carriages I. Introd. 18 *Coach-harness makers.
1794Hull Advert. 20 Sept. 4/1 Leather, per pound, Fine *Coach Hides 13d.
1663Pepys Diary 14 June, 15s. is to go for the *coach-hire for her. 1711Swift Lett. (1767) III. 247 Three shillings coach-hire to-day. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. vii, I had no money for coach-hire. 1616Pasquil & Kath. iii. 167 *Coach-Jades, and Dogs, are coupled still together.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 69 The Ioyner Squirrel or old Grub..the Faries *Coach-makers. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 230, I was at half-a-dozen coachmakers' yards.
1615Stow Eng. Chron. Jas. I an. 1605. 867/2 They [coaches] grew vsuall among the nobilitie..and within twenty yeeres became a great trade of *coach-making. 1801W. Felton Carriages I. Introd. 17 The art of Coach-making.
1638Brome Antipodes iii. ii, Item, an Elegy for Mistris Alderwoman Upon the death of one of her *Coach-mares.
1693Lond. Gaz. No. 2845/4 *Coach-Painter in Ordinary to H.M. 1709Steele Tatler No. 144 ⁋5 All the Coach-Makers and Coach-Painters in Town.
1821in Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 41 A common *coach-passenger room.
1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 195 The shillings of which it is proposed to rob the *coach-riding public..the public may be robbed of a shilling in their coach-riding.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 30 These are sayd to be her *coach-steeds.
1838Dickens O. Twist xli, He hurried..up the *coach-steps, and into the coach.
1840― Old C. Shop xlviii, How are you Christopher? croaked the dwarf from the *coach-top.
6. Special combinations. coach-book, the book in which passengers or parcels conveyed by a stage-coach are officially entered or ‘booked’; coach-built a., of a motor body, built of wood throughout by craftsmen, or on a wood framework with metal panels; also sometimes designating merely such a framework; † coach-carriage, a coach: cf. coach-wagon; coach-carver, one who does the carved work on a coach; coach-clerk, a clerk at a coach-office; † coach-cloak, a travelling cloak; † coach-coffer = coach-box; † coach-companion = coach-fellow; coach-currier, one who supplies the leather fittings for a coach; coach-dinner, a dinner provided for travellers by stage-coach at appropriate stopping-places; coach-dog, a dog of Dalmatian breed, usually white spotted with black, kept to run in attendance on a carriage; † coach-fellow, a horse yoked in the same carriage with another; humorously of persons, a companion, mate; coach-founder, one who makes the iron-work of a coach; † coach-glass, glass used for the windows of carriages; coach-house, a building or out-house for a coach or carriage; coach-joiner, one who does the joiner-work of a carriage; † coach-leaves, folding blinds of a coach-window; coach-load, as many people (or things) as can be carried in a coach; † coach-master, one who lets coaches or carriages for hire; † coach-match, a chariot-race; † coach-nave, the nave of a coach-wheel; coach-office, an office where passengers and parcels are booked for a stage-coach; coach-parcel, a parcel conveyed by coach; coach-party, a group of persons travelling by motor coach; † coach-pole, the pole of a carriage; coach-road, a road on which coaches run, especially one regularly traversed by mail-coaches; coach-roof, the top of a coach, or of the ‘coach’ in sense 2; coach screw, a large screw with a square head, which is turned with a spanner; hence coach-screw v.; coach-smith (see quots.); coach-smithing, smith's work in connexion with a coach; coach-stand, a place where (horse-drawn) coaches wait for hire; coach station, formerly (in U.S.) a regular stopping-place for a stage-coach; now a terminus for motor coaches; coach-table (Naut.), the table of the ‘coach’ (sense 2); coach tour, a tour undertaken by motor coach; coach trade, parties of trippers on an outing by motor coach, often derog.; † coach-treate, see quot.; coach trimmer, one who prepares the lace, linings, and other trimmings for carriages; coach-wagon, transl. Ger. kutschwagen, coach; see the Etymology above; coach-way = coach-road; also the part of a street or bridge on which vehicles run; coach-wise adv., in the manner of a coach; coach-woman, a woman driving a coach; coach-work, the bodywork of a motor-vehicle or railway coach; the upper part of the body of a motor vehicle; † coach-wright, a coach-builder. See also coach-box, -horse, -house, -man, etc.
1679Trials of Wakeman, etc. 23, I went the fourth of September, as the *Coach Book will make it appear.
1904Daily Chron. 19 Nov. 6/6 The new car, with a *coach-built seat at the rear in place of a tool-box. 1928Daily Express 13 June 3 The coachbuilt bodies are beautifully finished. 1932‘N. Shute’ Lonely Road ii. 23 Your head must have gone very nearly through the roof... You must consider yourself very fortunate that it was not a coach-built body.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 340/1 A *Coach Carriage..ought to have but one Pole.
1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6190/10 Thomas Nichols..*Coach-Carver.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 516 The most sensible remark..was by a witness, a *coach⁓clerk.
1705Lond. Gaz. No. 4177/4 A Cinnamon colour'd *Coach Cloak lined with blue.
1617Markham Caval. v. 57 He shall also haue euer in his *Coach-coffer, Hammer, Pinsers, Wimble, Chessell, and Nayles.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 18 A notable *coach companion for Martin, to drawe Diuinitie from the Colledger.
1845Talfourd Vac. Rambles I. 231 This, unlike the furtive *coach-dinners in England, had time to be eaten.
1840Marryat Olla Podr. x, The phaeton was followed by a..*coach-dog.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 7 You, and your *Coach-fellow Nim. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 49 Holding heads together as if they were coach-fellows.
1807Herschel in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 228 A..plate of *coach glass 17 inches long, and about 9 broad. Its thickness..31 two-hundredths of an inch.
1679M. Prance Narr. Pop. Plot 14 A long Entry leading into the upper Court by the *Coach-Houses. 1820Southey Devil's Walk 8 A cottage with a double coach⁓house, A cottage of gentility.
1800New Ann. Direct. 11 Baker, Robert, *Coach-joiner and Trunk-maker.
1630B. Jonson New Inn. ii. i, You must..Drive in again, with the *coach-leaves put down, At the back gate.
1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xix. 482 Their *coach-load of luxuries. 1908M. & J. Findlater Crossriggs viii. 56 In old coaching days this was one of the highways between England and Scotland, and many a merry coach-load had passed along it. 1954Ann. Reg. 1953 256 The..authorities had to turn back many coach-loads of Italians.
1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5923/4 William Ellis..*Coach-master. 1836E. Howard R. Reefer xviii, The glass coach drove up the inn-yard of some large coachmaster.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 12 The Flaminian way. A high-way from Rome, where they used to ride their *coach-matches.
1609Heywood Rape Lucrece Wks. 1874 V. 174 To wash my *Coach⁓naves in my fathers blood.
1794W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 4 May (1965) II. 155 She had even sent me to alter my day at the *Coach Office. 1833Marryat P. Simple iii, Two large blue posts at the door next the coach-office. 1834Dickens Let. 3 Sept. (1965) I. 41 There is a coach-office carrier delivering a hamper over the way. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xix, I also went to the coach-office and took my place.
1811Shelley in Hogg Life (1858) I. 423 A constant and animated correspondence of *coach⁓parcels.
1957R. Hoggart Uses Literacy v. 122 The ‘charas’ go rolling..past the road-houses which turn up their noses at *coach-parties.
1775Sheridan St. Patr. Day i. ii, Such a thing..as an old *coach-pole, or a spare bed-post.
1715Lond. Gaz. No. 5331/3 Near the Post and *Coach Road.
1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) III. 350 We took our seats on the *coach roof at five in the morning. 1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 450/2 A shallow boat with raised coach roof.
1874Thearle Naval Archit. v. 60 Very frequently *coach screws are placed between the bolts. Ibid. iii. 48 Angle-irons being fitted in the corners, riveted to the beams, and coach screwed to the carlings. 1930Engineering 20 June 787/3 Drills and appliances for fixing coach screws in sleepers.
1837N. Whittock Bk. Trades 152 The springs are made by the *Coach-smith, whose business is quite separate from that of the Coach-maker. 1846G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. VI. 122 A coach-smith..has to work large and heavy bars of iron into forms containing several unequal curves, and varying greatly in thickness. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §190 Coach-smith;..a smith who forges by hand or under power hammer..iron work used in building railway or tramway coaches, motor vans. carts, etc.
1883Athenæum 21 July 82/3 A..chapter, of practical value, on *coach-smithing.
1834Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. III. 268/3 Is not that a rare specimen of *coach-stand oratory? 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxii. 315 He turned down a bye-street in search of the nearest coach-stand.
1881Rocky Mt. Sk. in Sunday at Home Sept. 567/2 A *coach station some fifteen miles over the mountains. 1947G. Greene 19 Stories 211 Standing in the great steel coach station.
1660Pepys Diary (1828) I. 99, I dined commander at the *Coach table to-day.
1958Observer 10 Aug. 10/6 The man conducting a *coach-tour through unfamiliar landscapes for a crowd of strangers. 1966D. Francis Flying Finish iii. 36 A coach tour type holiday to Europe.
1962Sunday Express 7 Jan. 19/2 His farces are seen solely by the ‘*coach trade’ from the provinces. 1964Listener 16 Apr. 612/1 Why should a Feydeau farce be acceptable and an Aldwych farce not? Because the one is in French and the other frequented by the coach trade?
1617Markham Caval. v. 54 The draught-breadthes or *Coach treates, which extend from the breast of the Horse to the bridge-tree of the Coach, must bee of exceeding strong double leather.
1840Picayune (New Orleans) 28 July 1/2 Materials and tools for saddlers and *coach trimmers. 1909Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 7/6 (Advt.), Coach Trimmer wanted.
1722Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 254 They were carried in a *coach-waggon to the water side.
1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) 49 Some [women] will care little for going to Heauen, because there is no good *Coachway. 1735J. Price Stone-Br. Thames 4 A Street or Coach-way of 20 Feet broad..The Foot-way to be raised one Foot higher then the Coach-way.
1866Thoreau Yankee in Canada i. 4 Borne *coachwise along the spacious..avenues.
1865G. F. Berkeley Life & Recollect. II. 120 A Coachman or *coachwoman of any sort. 1876M. Collins Blacksmith & S. I. 98 There have been coachwomen who could drive four-in-hand.
1906Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 2/7 Special carburettors, governors, ignition gear, gear-boxes, *coachwork. 1907Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 6/3 The best examples of high-class coach⁓work. 1922Autocar 10 Nov. 1013 The advantage of this type of coachwork over the ordinary two-seater and dickey. a1963in P. Drackett Motor Rallying (1963) App. 83 A car with convertible coachwork, running in a saloon or closed car class, must complete all tests with the hood erected.
1587J. Harmar tr. Beza's Serm. 364 (T.) Built this coch by his trusty and faithful *coch⁓wrights and carpenters.
Add:[6.] coach bolt, a large bolt for fastening wood, having a square collar below the head to prevent it from turning as the nut is tightened on it.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. p. xxiii, Patent Nut & Bolt Co...*Coach bolts...Coach screws. 1991Woodturning Winter 18/1 The bearers are bolted on on either side with two 10mm 3/8{pp} diameter coach bolts,..sandwiching the tongue of the centre post between the bearers.
hence coach-bolted a., fastened or held by means of coach bolts.
1957Archit. Rev. CXXII. 256/1 The whole platform is surrounded by a deep softwood trimmer, *coach-bolted to the platform. 1991Practical Householder Apr. 11/2 The panels are all coach bolted together.
▪ II. coach, v.
[f. n.: cf. Ger. kutschen 16th c.]
1. trans. To convey in, seat in, provide with, a coach. Also fig. ? Obs.
1612Dekker If it be not good, etc. Wks. 1873 III. 270 Bring 'em all in coach'd, the gates are wide enough. 1616R. C. Times' Whis. iii. 1066 She must be coatcht, forsooth, and bravely ride. 1654Trapp Comm. Job. xxvi. 9 Christ was by a cloud coached up to heaven. Ibid. 2. Thess. i. 3 Adversity hath whipt many a soul to heaven..which otherwise prosperity had coached to hell. 1728Pope Dunciad iii. 291 The needy poet sticks to all he meets; Coach'd, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 598 The ladies being safely coached under the escorte of the lawyer. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 230 [He] goes coached to Satan's ball.
2. a. intr. To ride or drive in a coach or motor coach. (Also to coach it.) colloq.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentl. (1641) 392 This day you coach to the Exchange. c1632Fuller in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 222 All the Gentry coacht it up to the City. 1797Month. Mag. IV. 134 To coach it thro' the town. 1880Webster Supp. 1959Listener 27 Aug. 332/2 A French family, met with while coaching across France.
†b. trans. To traverse in a coach. Obs.
1693R. Gould Corruption of Times 11 When he does Coach the Streets. 1805Ann. Rev. III. 299 Splendour coaches the streets.
3. University colloq., etc. [see coach n. 3.]
a. trans. To prepare (a candidate) for an examination; to instruct in special subjects; to tutor; also, to train for an athletic contest, as a boat-race.
1849Thackeray Pendennis iii, He's coaching me and some other men for the little go. 1867Evening Standard 14 Feb., The crew being coached by Mr. F. Willan and Mr. G. Morrison, from the former gentleman's steamboat. 1881Athenæum No. 2806 Advt., Students coached in Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica and Physics. 1887Sir R. H. Roberts In the Shires viii. 128 These young ladies, although ably coached by their mother, had failed, etc.
b. intr. To ‘read’ or study with a ‘coach’.
1849Thackeray Pendennis iii, Are you stopping at Baymouth?.. I'm coaching there. 1889Oxford Tutor to Undergrad., ‘Would you like to coach this term, Mr. M.?’
c. To decoy wild cattle or horses with tame animals. Cf. coach n. 3 c. Austral.
1873Ranken Australia vi. 121 [The wild horse] may be got by ‘coaching’ like wild cattle. 1959J. Wright Generations of Men 128 He spent a week with the men, coaching over the range, and this time had luck enough to get a good number [of scrubber cattle]. |