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coach-horse
1. A horse used for drawing a coach.
1603Narrative King's Entertainment (T.), They drew together like coach-horses. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 3 Switzerland that furnishes Lombardy with the best part of its coach-horses.
fig.1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. iv. iii, To restrain These coltish coach-horse tongues from blasphemy. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i, 'Tis the swaggering coach⁓horse Anaides, that draws with him.
2. Naut. (See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Coach-horses, the crew of the state barge; usually fifteen selected men. |