coaching stockn.
/ˈkəʊtʃɪŋ stɒk/, U.S. /ˈkoʊtʃɪŋ ˌstɑk/ 1. Horses used to pull carriages, considered collectively as a breed, pedigree, etc. Also: pedigree or ancestry of this type. Now rare.
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1784 Reading Mercury & Oxf. Gaz. 10 May (advt.) Two Bay rich-colour'd Horses..both being well adapted for getting strong hunters or coaching stock.
1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Brit. Field Sports 557 A horse named Regulus,..having been the Sire of three thousand Foals, hackney, hunting, and coaching Stock.
1896 Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, N.Y.) 25 Apr. 19/2 Eighty horses of trotting and coaching stock..will be sold.
1978 A. A. Dent Cleveland Bay Horses viii. 78 Nor is it very likely that a better foundation for coaching stock will be found in the British Isles.
2. Chiefly British. Railway carriages used for passenger travel, considered collectively (esp. those belonging to a particular railway company). Cf. rolling stock n. 1.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun]
rolling stock1847
rolling plant1848
1839 Railway Times 2 Feb. 104/2 The depreciation of locomotive and coaching stock.
1928 Railway & Locomotive Hist. Soc. Bull. 16 50 The Cornwall Ry. [sc. Railway] only had coaching stock, their trains being worked by South Devon engines.
2020 North Norfolk News (Nexis) 10 Sept. This year has seen the coaching stock refurbished and significantly added to, which means that our passengers will be travelling in greater comfort.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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