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coachman|ˈkəʊtʃmən|
[f. coach n. + man.]
1. a. The man who drives a coach.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 33 Caligula..loued Prasinus the Cochman. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. (Arb.) 266 Comming to salute the Queene..he said to her Cochman, stay thy cart good fellow, stay thy cart, that I may speake to the Queene. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Skiamachia Wks. 197 A coach-man of a lord of parliament. 1711Swift Lett. (1767) III. 161 The dean..sent me his chariot, which has cost me two shillings to the coachman. 1828Southey Ep. Allan Cunningham, With coachmen's quarrels, and with footmen's shouts. 1878Seeley Stein III. 498 Calling him ‘a good horse, but a bad coachman’.
†b. poet. A charioteer. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 59 Coachmen of old of Achilles. c1611Chapman Iliad xiii. 866 His coachman led them to his lord.
c. techn. The driver of a fire-engine.
1883Pall Mall G. 23 Oct. 4/2 In securing a quick start a great responsibility rests upon the ‘coachman’.
d. An Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, also called the coach-whip bird; cf. flying coachman.
[1822Jrnl. Excursion Blue Mountains 10 Oct. in B. Field Geogr. Mem N.S. Wales (1825) 440 Some [notes] are harsh and vulgar, like those of the parrot-kind, the cockatoo, the coachman's whip-bird. ]1827P. Cunningham N.S.W. II. 158 Our native coachman..whistling and cracking out his whiplike notes as he hops sprucely from branch to branch. 1888Jas. Thomas in Austral. Poets 1788–1888 552 While the crested coachman bird Midst the underwood is heard. 1918J. A. Leach Austral. Bird Bk. (ed. 4) 151 Rufous-breasted Whistler (Thickhead), Little Thrush, Ring Coachman, Coachwhip-Bird.
2. Angling. A kind of artificial fly.
1839in T. C. Hofland Angler's Manual. 1852D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports 1162 A mothlike artificial representation known in [Herefordshire] as Harding's or the coachman's from a stage coach driver of that name who was an excellent fly fisher. 1867F. Francis Angling vi. (1880) 243 The Coachman..is one of the best evening and night flies.
Hence ˈcoachmanlike a., ˈcoachmanhood.
1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 320 A most magnificent coachmanlike wig. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 206 The mighty plush galligaskins of coachmanhood. |