COACH-AND-FOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coach-and-four mean? 

• COACH-AND-FOUR (noun)
  The noun COACH-AND-FOUR has 1 sense:

1. a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver

  Familiarity information: COACH-AND-FOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COACH-AND-FOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A carriage pulled by four horses with one driver

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand

Hypernyms ("coach-and-four" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Meronyms (parts of "coach-and-four"):

box; box seat (the driver's seat on a coach)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coach-and-four"):

stage; stagecoach (a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns)