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COACHMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who drives a coach (or carriage)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coachman" is a kind of...):
driver (someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle)
Context examples:
The cook was bad-tempered, the old coachman was deaf, and Esther the only one who ever took any notice of the young lady.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
If he could anyhow discover at what house the coachman had before set down his fare, he determined to make inquiries there, and hoped it might not be impossible to find out the stand and number of the coach.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
With such encouragement as this, was she dismissed on the present occasion, to her brother's carriage; which they were ready to enter five minutes after it stopped at the door, a punctuality not very agreeable to their sister-in-law, who had preceded them to the house of her acquaintance, and was there hoping for some delay on their part that might inconvenience either herself or her coachman.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
One day the governess ordered our coachman to stop at several shops, where the beggars, watching their opportunity, crowded to the sides of the coach, and gave me the most horrible spectacle that ever a European eye beheld.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This evil had been felt and lamented, at least three times a day, by Isabella since her residence in Bath; and she was now fated to feel and lament it once more, for at the very moment of coming opposite to Union Passage, and within view of the two gentlemen who were proceeding through the crowds, and threading the gutters of that interesting alley, they were prevented crossing by the approach of a gig, driven along on bad pavement by a most knowing-looking coachman with all the vehemence that could most fitly endanger the lives of himself, his companion, and his horse.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I called to the coachman to come, for it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break out through the ring and to aid his approach.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Gregory, let me recommend to your attention this singular epidemic among the sheep. Drive on, coachman!”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We shall not want it to go to church; but it must be ready the moment we return: all the boxes and luggage arranged and strapped on, and the coachman in his seat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“You are going through, sir?” said the coachman.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
