单词 | coaching company |
释义 | > as lemmascoaching company 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. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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