† shoulder-stickn.Obsolete a coach passenger carried by the method called ‘shouldering’ (see shoulderv. 14).
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1828 Sporting Mag.21 324 ‘Why do they call the opposition [coach] the Regulator?’ asked Joe Walton's shoulder-stick one day.