stagecoach
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Stagecoach Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Stagecoach
(n.)
A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
(n.)
A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
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stagecoach
Noun
1. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
(synonym) stage
(hypernym) coach, four-in-hand, coach-and-four
Noun
1. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
(synonym) stage
(hypernym) coach, four-in-hand, coach-and-four
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stagecoach
stagecoach
\stage"coach`\ (?), n. a coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
stagecoach
n : a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles" [syn: stage]
stagecoach
\stage"coach`\ (?), n. a coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
stagecoach
n : a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles" [syn: stage]
Stagecoach Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Stagecoach
A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled enclosed coach for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand. Formerly making regular trips between stations, it was widely used before the introduction of railway transport. Familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, a highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver", and a coach being chased by American Indians in a Western movie. The stagecoach was first developed in the British Isles during the 1500s, and only died out in the early 1900s in the United States. Coaching inns opened up throughout Europe to accommodate stagecoach passengers. Shakespeare's first plays were staged at coaching inns such as The George Inn, Southwark. The Royal Mail stagecoach, a mail coach introduced in 1784, hastened the improvement of the road system in the British Isles through the turnpike trust system. And the stagecoach was vital in the colonisation of North America.
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