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coacher, n.|ˈkəʊtʃə(r)|
Also 6 cocher(e.
[In sense 1, a. F. cocher coachman (cf. also Ger. kutscher, 16th c.); in 2, f. coach n. or v. + -er.]
†1. The driver of a coach; a coachman, charioteer. Obs.
1587J. Harmar tr. Beza's Serm. 375 (T.) His coche was pluckt in pieces by evil cochers. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 90 The Hungarish horse..are defective for service, other then for travaile; to which the..Almain Coachers [ed. 1630 Coach-men] find them excellent. 1609Bible (Douay) 1 Kings xxii. 34 He said to his cochere: Turne thy hand.
2. A coach-horse.
1769Public Advertiser 25 Sept. 3/3 A Bay Horse..fit for a Coacher. 1869Daily News 7 Aug., A mare..out of a carrier's cart mare by a coacher.
3. One who coaches (sense 3).
4. = coach n. 3 c. Austral. and N.Z.
1904H. Buckland in M. Cradock Sport in N.Z. ii. vi. 174 A storekeeper..turned out on the ground twenty milkers which were intended to act as ‘coachers’. 1904‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 20 Harry Morell and five more held the coachers beyond the low hill. 1932I. Idriess Men of Jungle (1933) viii. 84 Some time ago, the Pierces had driven ‘coachers’ out on to this particular feeding-ground and left them there. Coachers are cattle trained to help trap their wild brethren. 1955J. Cleary Justin Bayard 270 Five or six coachers, docile bullocks that acted as decoys, were already headed towards the open gate. 1959J. Wright Generations of Men ix. 115 He ran in a mob of forty quiet horses, to be used as coachers. |