单词 | coacher |
释义 | coachern.ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of coach coachman1579 coacher1587 coachee1602 voiturier1763 voiturin1768 whipship1817 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. 375 His Coche was pluckt in peeces by euill Cochers. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 90 The Hungarish horse..are defectiue for seruice, other then for trauaile; to which the..Almain Coachers [1630 Coach-men] find them excellent. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings xxii. 34 He said to his cochere: Turne thy hand. 2. A coach-horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls vehicle > of specific type (miscellaneous) > that pulls coach hack1571 coach-horse1590 coacher1769 stager1852 1769 Public Advertiser 25 Sept. 3/3 A Bay Horse..fit for a Coacher. 1869 Daily News 7 Aug. 5/3 A mare..out of a carrier's cart mare by a coacher. 3. One who coaches (sense 3). 4. = coach n. 3c. Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1904 H. 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. 1932 I. L. 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. 1955 J. Cleary Justin Bayard 270 Five or six coachers, docile bullocks that acted as decoys, were already headed towards the open gate. 1959 J. Wright Generations of Men ix. 115 He ran in a mob of forty quiet horses, to be used as coachers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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