coachmann.
/ˈkəʊtʃmən/, U.S. /ˈkoʊtʃmən/ 1. † b. poetic. A charioteer. Obsolete.
a. The man who drives a coach.
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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
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 15v Caligula..loued Prasinus the Cocheman.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 217 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.
a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 197 A Coach-man of a Lord of Parliament.
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 161 The dean..sent me his chariot, which has cost me two shillings to the coachman.
1828 R. Southey Poet. Epist. to A. Cunningham With coachmen's quarrels, and with footmen's shouts.
1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 498 Calling him ‘a good horse, but a bad coachman’.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of a chariot
carterc1374
charioteer1382
charet-man1535
chariot-man1577
coachman1582
charet-driver1591
wagoner1594
chareter1610
jockeya1719
chariot-driver1769
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 35 Coachman of old of Achilles.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 866 His coachman led them to his lord.
c. technical. The driver of a fire-engine.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of fire-engine
engineer1738
coachman1883
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 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 at coach-whip n. 4; cf. flying coachman n. at flying adj. 1b.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Pachycephalinae > genus Pachycephala
coach-whip1793
thunder-birda1827
coachman1827
olive whistler1911
1822 B. Field Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales (1825) 440 Some [notes] are harsh and vulgar, like those of the parrot-kind, the cockatoo, the coachman's whip-bird.]
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvi. 158 Our native coachman..whistling and cracking out his whiplike notes as he hops sprucely from branch to branch.
1888 Jas. Thomas in Austral. Poets 1788–1888 552 While the crested coachman bird Midst the underwood is heard.
1918 J. 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.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1839 in T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man.
1852 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (new ed.) 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.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 212 The Coachman..is one of the best evening and night flies.
Derivatives
ˈcoachmanlike adj.
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1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) II. 320 A most magnificent coachmanlike wig.
ˈcoachmanhood n.
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1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 206 The mighty plush galligaskins of coachmanhood.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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