coachingn.
/ˈkəʊtʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊtʃɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈkoʊtʃɪŋ/ The action of coach v.† 3. Business slang. The action or strategy of artificially inflating the price of an item, commodity, etc.; spec. the practice of pretending that a prospective buyer is in competition with fictitious bidders in a supposed auction. Cf. puffing n.2 3b. Obsolete. rare.
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a. The action or practice of travelling by coach. Also: the provision and operation of coach services. Often as a modifier (see Compounds 1a). Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > [noun] > by wheeled vehicle > by coach
1621 H. Farley St. Paules-Church sig. E4v For Dicing, Drinking, foolish sporting, Hunting, Wenching, Coaching, Courting.
1740 G. Fisher Instructor (ed. 5) 326 The next Thing I shall treat on, is the Manner of Breeding, to know the true Size of your Horse and Mare, let them be for Coaching or Hunting.
1791 Public Advertiser 25 June He would use some relaxation of mind with his studies; as gently walking, coaching, slow riding, playing at bowls, and other such-like exercises.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xxxviii. 295 Shap had been a place owing all such life as it possessed to coaching and posting.
1885 Manch. Examiner 15 May 5/7 Coaching now thrives..on some favourite routes in and out of London.
b. The driving of coaches, now esp. as a pastime or sport.
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1652 A. Ross Hist. World ii.ii. 57 He suffered not men and women to bath together, nor did he permit riding or coaching within cities.
1734 J. Rogers Ess. Epidemic Dis. 260 That Day was wet, and no Exercise, but about one Mile's Coaching to Church.
1824 London Lit. Gaz. 28 Aug. 557/3 Tom..In coaching was a whip of desperate skill, And loved Team-driving better far than Quill.
1907 Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 9/6 The late baronet..was a famous whip in the days when the revival of coaching was at its acme, being an old member of the Coaching Club.
1995 Carriage Jrnl. Spring 150/1 Four horses are usually used in the sport of coaching, and often in the sport of combined driving, but the judging of the two sports is fundamentally different.
2018 @TheChanlerHotel 17 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Feb. 2022) Every three years, these horse-drawn coaches return to Newport for A Weekend of Coaching.
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a. Originally (University slang in earliest use): special tuition for an examination; cramming; now rare. Later more generally: extra tuition in a given academic subject.In later use, often coloured by sporting uses to the extent that this and other uses such as sense 2d often merge into a more general sense of ‘instruction, tuition, training’, and are distinguished only by context or subject matter.
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society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > coaching
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1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins xvi, in New Monthly Mag. Aug. 494 He made a great deal of money by private coaching.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iii. 30 Such a flat as not to know what coaching meant.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xxvi. 325 The very man to give Colthurst all the facts he wanted coaching in.
1904 Times 24 Dec. 8/6 All public schoolmasters, whose curriculum is sometimes vexatiously interfered with in order to provide for the special coaching of boys.
1953 Economist 1 Nov. 463/3 (advt.) Experienced coaching for..exams... Management.
2001 Econ. Times (Nexis) 19 Nov. Although you would be able to get postal coaching for General Studies, getting the same for all optionals may be difficult.
b. Training and instruction given to a sports team, player, or athlete; the activity or profession of being a trainer or instructor in sport or athletics.In earliest use with reference to the training and vocal encouragement and coordination of a university boat crew.
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1847 Era 28 Feb. 5/3 [A young, inexperienced coxswain] can know nothing of the practical part of training a crew;..not so, however, the old oarsman: he knows what should and should not be done. He has submitted to coaching himself.
1860 Baily's Monthly Mag. Oct. 38 Chambers took nearly the centre of the river, and Tom Grant was to do the ‘coaching’ for him.
1889 Daily News 29 Jan. 3/6 The President superintended the coaching[for a boat race] from horseback.
1930 N.Y. Times 29 Nov. 15/3 Princeton has signed off on graduate coaching for baseball.
1992 News Jrnl. (Wilmington, Delaware) 18 Aug. c3/6 Except for several years as a freshman coach at McKean, Potter has done his coaching in South Jersey.
2021 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 5 Nov. They earned their spot at nationals with a lot of hard work and great coaching.
c. Instruction given to a person as to what to do or say in a particular situation; spec. the preparation or prompting of a witness to give specific answers under examination.
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1862 Morning Post 28 July 2/6 His best plan will be to study the cotton supply question for himself and not trust to the ‘coaching’ of narrow-minded incompetent persons.
1876 Fun 19 Apr. 170/1 The..coroner's..interpretations of what witnesses meant as distinguished from what they said.., the coaching of witnesses—all seem to be part of one huge congenial whole which is happily too transparent to need explanation.
1985 Jrnl. Nursing Admin. 15 34/2 One director received coaching from the employee relations manager on how best to deal with the rumors.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) x. 211 Whatever the impression gleaned from Hollywood movies about the coaching of witnesses, barrister cannot rehearse a witness's evidence; it is not allowed in Britain.
2006 Independent 14 Jan. 2/1 They found that ‘ethical audits’—the conventional method of checking conditions—were ineffective because of falsification of records and coaching of staff before inspections.
d. Instruction or training in a specified (non-academic and non-sporting) activity, field, or context, esp. in the performing arts. Often with modifying word.See note at sense 2a.See also vocal coaching n. at vocal adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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1867 Tinsleys' Mag. Dec. 561/1 As my presence in my original part was the only novelty, no full rehearsal was considered necessary—an hour or two's coaching of those concerned in my principal scenes being all that was requisite.
1885 Era 21 Nov. 13/4 The actors are all lads of the middle class,..who receive no dramatic ‘coaching’ of any kind save what is given by their..principal..and his talented assistant masters.
1908 Pacific Outlook 19 Sept. 19/2 (advt.) Voice culture... Coaching for opera, concert, and oratorio.
1966 Music Educators Jrnl. 52 82/2 Thirty performers and teachers of these instruments will audit the open lessons and receive coaching in piano trio performance.
2008 Targeted News Service (Nexis) 28 Aug. This program is designed to elevate each student's driving skills with personalized coaching across a variety of driving conditions.
e. Chiefly in business and management contexts. Advice and guidance as to how to attain a person's professional or personal goals.See also life coaching n. at life n. Compounds 3.
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1926 Times 11 Feb. 3/2 (advt.) The Business Careers Association is seeking such men..and after coaching can successfully introduce them to excellent positions.
1934 Pop. Mech. Oct. 7 a/2 The LaSalle Success-Building Plan..supplies..[n]ot only individualized training and coaching to help you meet today's needs..but also the very steps you need to take to fill the job ahead, and force that pay raise quickly.
1957 Harvard Business Rev. May–June 89/2 They [sc. formal performance appraisal plans] are increasingly used as a basis for the coaching and counseling of the individual by the superior.
2000 Time 16 Oct. 95/1 Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy..concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals.
2016 Financial Times 3 June 20/2 A new talent engagement approach attuned to millennial lawyers involves greater transparency, one-on-one coaching and partner mentoring, and gives associates a greater say in the development of their careers.
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1866 Travers' Circular 10 Feb. 107/2 ‘Coaching’..is the mischievous system of putting up to pretended auction goods for which the owner hopes to realize fancy prices by the employment of fictitious bidders.
1875 Belfast News-let. 29 May His Lordship observed that he did not approve of solicitors acting for the coaching of shares. It was by persons of influence and position lending their business assistance to companies that persons were induced to support them.
4. Australian. The action or practice of using tame cows, bullocks, etc., as decoys in order to lure wild cattle or horses. Cf. coach v. 8. Now somewhat rare, except as a modifier (see Compounds 3).
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1872 G. S. Baden-Powell New Homes for Old Country xix. 183 In mountainous and rough districts the cattle are often very wild, and the method usually entered upon is that termed ‘coaching’.
1873 W. H. L. Ranken Dominion Austral. vi. 121 [The wild horse] may be got by ‘coaching’, like wild cattle.
1938 Sunday Sun (Sydney) 19 June (Mag.) 6/3 Old Rufus [sc. a rogue bull] must be caught, for his wild presence meant that coaching for wild cows would not be possible.
1951 E. Hill Territory 308 Coaching was rougher riding…You take a couple of hundred cattle on to wild cattle tracks, circle the outlaws and work them into the coaches (N.B. the tame cattle).
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a. As a modifier (in sense 1), with the sense ‘of, relating to, or used for coaching or coach travel’, as in coaching company, coaching route.Recorded earliest in coaching horse n.
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1775 Ipswich Jrnl. 30 Dec. (advt.) The noted Chesnut Horse..gets the most foals of any horse in this country; and for mares of a lightish kind is likely to get good coaching horses, or strong hunters.
1790 Northampton Mercury 24 Apr. (advt.) The noted Old Horse Blaze..is preferred before any other Cart-Horse to cover Blood Mares or Hackneys—no Horse has got more valuable Coaching Stock.
1819 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 943 I am just returned from a coaching tour in the aguish parts of Essex.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 172 Several coaching companies were..got up by innkeepers at Darlington.
1884 J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. Feb. 346/2 The..inn of the old coaching days.
1912 E. A. Pratt Hist. Inland Transport 480 Cycling and automobilism have increased the use of the roads of the United Kingdom..to an extent that probably surpasses their use even in the palmy days of the Coaching Era.
2021 Daily Echo (Nexis) 13 Oct. In 1820 the village was on the crossroads of two important coaching routes.
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coaching glass n. chiefly historical (a name for) a drinking glass with a stem but no foot.The glass is designed to be held, rather than placed on a surface. It has been suggested that this style of glass was originally intended for use by travellers making a stop at a coaching inn for refreshment, with the understanding that there would be limited time for consumption (see, e.g., quot. 1926).
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1889 Antiquary May 222/1 Mr. Hartshorne's book will describe..square-footed glasses; liqueur glasses; rummers; coaching glasses.
1926 E. Singleton Collecting of Antiques iii. 172 When a coach stopped at an inn to change horses, a servant would bring a tray with bottles and these ‘coaching glasses’ turned upside down to the travellers in the coach.
1996 C. R. Chapman Weights, Money & Other Meas. used by our Ancestors iv. 35 Containers of varying sizes, solely for drinking, included the coaching glass and tumbler, both with round bases to encourage immediate consumption.
coaching horse n. A horse that is used to pull a coach, typically as part of a team or pair; a horse of a type bred to pull coaches; a coach horse. Now chiefly historical.
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1775 Ipswich Jrnl. 30 Dec. (advt.) The noted Chesnut Horse..gets the most foals of any horse in this country; and for mares of a lightish kind is likely to get good coaching horses, or strong hunters.
1807 Newcastle Courant 14 Mar. (advt.) A Stallion for Sale. He was got by a Coaching Horse, out of a Country Mare, is now five years old and free from all Blemishes.
1911 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 72 112 From the strong element of thoroughbred blood in its composition the [Yorkshire] Coach Horse derives plenty of quality, while breeders have succeeded in breeding it with a good deal of action; some coaching horses, indeed, being very fine all-round movers.
2013 A. Foley & M. Munro Portobello & Great War vii. 125 In August 1915, Mr J. Cormack closed down his horse-drawn cab business.., and he was closely followed by Mr A. Roberts, of the Baileyfield Road Stables, who also decided to sell his coaching horses.
coaching inn n. now chiefly historical an inn on a route followed by horse-drawn coaches, at which horses could be cared for or fresh ones provided; (now sometimes also) an inn formerly used for such purposes, which now operates as a public house.Cf. earlier coach inn n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > inn
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1828 Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 28 July (advt.) Wanted immediately, at a first-rate Hotel and Coaching Inn, an active, sober, industrious, single young Man as Assistant Waiter.
1845 New Monthly Mag. July 310 The nastiness of the majority of coaching inns..was not their only peculiarity. The ‘ungrateful hurry’ as Gay calls it, of everybody was quite as remarkable.
1977 K. Richardson Brit. Motor Industry 1896–1939 i. 4 Writing in 1860, Charles Dickens described the state of decay into which a former coaching inn had fallen, now that the railways had triumphed and stage coaches ceased to run.
2000 Holiday & Leisure Spring 18/3 The Angel stands as the archetypal coaching inn, enticing you to overnight with a view to exploring this charming market town further.
C2. As a modifier (in sense 2), with the sense ‘of, relating to, or involving special instruction, tuition, or training’, as in coaching career, coaching session, coaching staff, etc.
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1842 Sunday Times 25 Sept. 4/4 The private tutor, or ‘coaching system’, as it is called, is most stoutly denounced and reprobated by the Times.
1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 30 Oct. (Last ed.) 3/4 Dean is a permanent addition to the coaching staff and to-day he gave particular attention to Quarter Back Garrison.
1920 Mich. Alumnus Mar. 329/1 That young blood be added to the coaching staff as deemed necessary.
1999 Cricketer Mar. 25 (advt.) The Conference will feature practical coaching sessions and masterclasses from such names as Bob Woolmer, Sir Richard Hadlee, [etc.].
2003 Franchise Mag. New Year Issue 111 (advt.) You will learn proven business coaching techniques, which turn losses into profits, time-starved control freaks into time-rich happy leaders and much, much more.
2021 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 13 July His early coaching experience had consisted of observing youth volleyball matches and practices.
C3. Australian. As a modifier (in sense 4), designating tame cows or horses used as decoys to catch wild cattle or horses, as in coaching cattle, coaching cow, coaching mob (see mob n.2 6a), etc.
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1873 Brisbane Courier 5 Nov. Police officer Gordon summoned Messrs Blacklock, Wylde, and Baxter, of Bridge Creek, for trespassing on Juandah station with coaching cattle.
1906 A. B. Paterson Outback Marriage xviii. 164 ‘There should be a terrible lot of wild cattle here... Don't you ever get any out of the scrubs?’ ‘Oh yes, we moonlight for 'em... We take coachers out. We have a very fair coaching mob.’
1938 Sunday Sun (Sydney) 19 June (Mag.) 6/3 The quiet coaching cows were released from the stockyard. For three days they were driven.., until the wild cows and calves were sighted.
2001 K. McGinnis Heart Country 301 Dad rode out with them twice, just to hold the coaching mob—the quiet cattle they took with them to run the wilder stuff into.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022; most recently modified version published online December 2022).
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