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单词 coach-builder
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coach-builder
C2. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which coach (in sense A. 1a) expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in coach-builder, coach-drawer, coach-maker, coach-making, coach-painter, coach-riding, etc. Now chiefly historical.Recorded earliest in coach driver n.Cf. coachbuilding n., coach-built adj.
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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 114 The coche driuer dyd what he could possible at the first to staye them, by holding in the raynes.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Carrocchiero, a coche-man, a coche-maker.
1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 867/2 They [sc. coaches] grew vsuall among the nobilitie..and within twenty yeeres became a great trade of coach-making.
1693 London Gaz. No. 2845/4 Coach-Painter in Ordinary to H.M.
1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 143 The shillings of which it is proposed to rob the coach-riding public..the public may be robbed of a shilling in their coach-riding.
1849 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. 2nd Ser. 639/1 (heading) Stags as coach-drawers.
1974 D. J. Smith Discovering Horse-drawn Carriages vi. 29 Mail-coaches were hired to the Government and constructed by a firm of coach-builders known as John Vidler and Company.
2018 Cowra (New S. Wales) Guardian (Nexis) 2 Feb. 11 Coach makers, horse breeders and ostlers found themselves looking for new careers as Henry Ford started to build petrol driven cars.
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