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COACH-AND-FOUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coach-and-four mean?
• COACH-AND-FOUR (noun)
The noun COACH-AND-FOUR has 1 sense:
1. a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
Familiarity information: COACH-AND-FOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand
Hypernyms ("coach-and-four" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Meronyms (parts of "coach-and-four"):
box; box seat (the driver's seat on a coach)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach-and-four"):
stage; stagecoach (a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns)
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