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An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination. [Cant, U.S.]

alling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.

sore, or galled place; a sensitive spot; as, to touch one on the raw. Like savage hackney coachmen, they know where there is a raw. De Quincey.

To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. Macaulay.

One who drives much; a coach driver. [Eng.]

e. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. Gay.

the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.

d to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins. Chapman.

bstruct; to fsten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud. They show how hard they are set in this particular. Addison.

large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A parcel sent you by the stage." Cowper. I went in the sixpenny stage. Swift.

The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.

To wait; to attend; to forbear to act. I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us. Shak. The father can not stay any longer for the fortune. Locke.

To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]

A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.

or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." Spenser. To take his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbori…

To drive, as a coach. [Slang,Eng.]

as a horn when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.

To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.

Not moistened or wet with liquor; dry. "Unliquored coach." Bp. Hall.

That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance; specifically, a means of conveyance upon land.