stagecoachn.
1. A coach that runs daily or on specified days between two places for the conveyance of passengers, parcels, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach
posting carriage1556
wagon1615
post-coach1636
stagecoach1658
flying coach1669
stage1671
wagon-coach1675
stage-wagon1681
post-car1694
post-wagon1694
post calash1703
fly1708
post-carriage1720
post-stage1738
diligence1742
flying machine1764
machine1769
mail coach1785
dilly1786
mail stage1792
high-flyer1799
post-equipage1813
post vehicle1815
tally-ho coach1831
mail packeta1837
flying carriage1849
stager1852
mail-hack1909
1658 Mercurius Politicus 1–8 Apr. 433 From the 26 day of April 1658, there will continue to go Stage Coaches from the George Inn.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Feb. (1972) VII. 59 Kate Joyce, in a stage-coach going toward London, called to me.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 492 And, if a shower approach, You find safe shelter in the next stage-coach.
1812 Examiner 28 Dec. 827/2 A stage-coach..usually carries six inside passengers, and is drawn by four horses.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States ix. 547 Partly by rail and partly by rapid stage-coach..I crossed the State.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. iii. 44 We came to the roadside inn where the stage-coach changed horses.
2. U.S. ? The name of a game in which the players scramble for new places.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > other party or parlour games
drawing of glovesc1540
drawing gloves1599
substantives and adjectives1601
draw gloves1648
grinning-match1711
Move All1782
consequences1811
stagecoach1831
letters1845
Russian scandal1861
buzz1864
snap1865
slappy1868
apple-ducking1886
up Jenkins1889
piladex1895
telephone1910
hot potato1915
sardines1924
murder in the dark1930
pass the parcel1953
seven minutes in (also of) heaven1953
Chinese whispers1964
1831 Boston Transcript 2 Aug. 2/3 The entertainment happened to be the ‘Stage Coach’, which was acted so wretchedly that it was impossible to make head or tail of it.
1872 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy Did (1873) v. 89 They all fell to playing ‘Stage-coach’..in spite of close quarters and an occasional bump.
1892 Nation (N.Y.) 24 Nov. 397/3 What happened on the demise of the Grand Prince resembled a game of ‘stage-coach’, with swords thrown in.
Compounds
General attributive.
stagecoach book n.
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1791 J. O'Keeffe Wild Oats ii. iii. 34 You've got your name down in the stage-coach book.
stagecoach conveyance n.
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1803 Censor 1 Mar. 27 A stage-coach conveyance.
stagecoach hire n.
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1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlvi. 52 They allowed me..outside stage-coach-hire all the way.
stagecoach horse n.
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1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 309/1 The horse of quick work, the stage-coach horse and the poster.
stage-coachman n. the driver (also †the proprietor) of a stage-coach.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > public transport employees > specific stagecoach employees
stage-coachman1756
guard1788
mayoral1834
station agent1840
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 284 The Vetturini, or stage-coachman, must..not go out of the country without a pass.
1757 Ld. Mansfield in Burrow Settlem. Cases (1768) II. 424 This..is no more than the Case of the Oxford Stage-Coachman's Servant who gained a Settlement in Chipping-Wicomb.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers liv. 590 They..wore as many clothes as possible, which is..a stage-coachman's idea of full dress.
stagecoach office n.
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1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. ii. iii. 110 The clerk of a stage-coach office registers those who take places.
Derivatives
stage-coaching n. the running or driving of stagecoaches (also attributive); travelling by stagecoach.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > operation of stagecoaches
stage-work1829
staging1840
stage-coaching1843
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xiii. 164 A large stage-coaching establishment.
1884 G. A. Sala Journey due South (1887) i. viii. 108 The virtual state of perfection to which English stage-coaching had attained.
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