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coachmanship|ˈkəʊtʃmənʃɪp|
[f. coachman + -ship.]
1. The performance of a coachman; skill in driving a coach. Also transf.
1776G. Steevens Let. Jan. in Corr. Garrick (1832) II. 122 Your Antony and Cleopatra was a splendid performance; but..it afforded you few opportunities of showing..that coachmanship in which you excel all others. 1778G. Colman Prose on Sev. Occas. (1787) III. 224 Their..skill in Coachmanship to show. 1785Cowper Tiroc. 326 His skill in coachmanship or driving chaise. 1802Dyott Diary 8 June (1907) I. 215 The ship..ran immediately in for the quay, which required good coachmanship, as it was a very narrow passage and blowing hard. 1843I. F. Romer Rhone, Darro & G. I. 245 To think it incumbent upon him to display his best coachmanship.
2. Coaching, instructing; ability or skill in this. Cf. coach v. 3.
1873Trollope Eustace Diamonds II. xxxviii. 156 For devotion in coachmanship..I defy the world. |