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nouna horse, usually strong and heavily built, for drawing a coach. Origin of coach horseFirst recorded in 1580–90 Words nearby coach horsecoach-built, coach class, coach dog, coachee, coacher, coach horse, coach house, coaching glass, coach line, coachman, coach screw Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for coach horseAnd I shall begin with our familiar and unsavoury old friend, the Devil's Coach-horse. The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, February 1899, No. 98.|Various The scientific name of the dardaol is "ocypus olens," in English he is sometimes called the "devil's coach-horse." Legends of Saints & Sinners|Douglas Hyde But the Devil's Coach-horse makes it serve a double purpose. The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, February 1899, No. 98.|Various They might just as well have settled that he was a coach-horse, and could just as easily have called him one. A Child's History of England|Charles Dickens
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