- A man who drives a coach or carriage.
- An artificial fly used in angling.
Dictionary:
coach·man (kōch'mən) ![]() |
| WordNet: coachman |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a man who drives a coach (or carriage)
| Wikipedia: Coachman |
A coachman was a man whose business it was to drive a coach, a horse-drawn vehicle designed for the conveyance of more than one passenger — and of mail — and covered for protection from the elements. He was also called a coachee, coachy or whip.
The term "coachman" is correctly applied to the driver of any type of coach, but it had a specialized meaning before the advent of motor vehicles, as the servant who preceded the chauffeur in domestic service. In a great house, this would have been a specialty, but in more modest households, the coachman would have doubled as the stablehand or groom.
In early coaches he sat on a built-in compartment called a boot, bracing his feet on a footrest called a footboard. He was often pictured wearing a box coat or box jacket, a heavy overcoat with or without shoulder capes, double-breasted, with fitted waist and wide lapels; its name derives from its use by coachmen riding on the box seat, exposed to all kinds of weather. An ornamented, often fringed cloth called a hammercloth might have hung over the coachman's seat, especially of a ceremonial coach. He could be seen taking refreshments at a type of public house called a watering house.
A coachman was sometimes called a jarvey or jarvie, especially in Ireland (Jarvey was a nickname for Jarvis). One who drove dangerously fast or recklessly might invoke biblical or mytholological allusions: Some referred to him as a jehu, recalling King Jehu of Israel, who was noted for his furious attacks in a chariot (2 Kings 9:20) before he died about 816 BCE. Others dubbed him a Phaeton, harking back to the Greek Phaëton, son of Helios who, attempting to drive the chariot of the sun, managed to set the earth on fire. When there was no coachman, a postilion or postillion sometimes rode as a guide on the near horse of a pair or of one of the pairs attached to a coach.
Coachman is also a synonym for the pennant coralfish (Heniochus Monoceros).
Coachman is also a very famous fly used for flyfishing. The pattern exist as both a dry-fly and wet-fly. The pattern is composed before 1860 in England.
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| Translations: Coachman |
Deutsch (German)
n. - Kutscher
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αμαξάς, αμαξηλάτης
Italiano (Italian)
cocchiere, conducente
Português (Portuguese)
n. - cocheiro (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - cochero
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kusk, förare
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
马车夫
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 馬車夫
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 御者, マス釣り用の毛針
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) سائق عربه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - עגלון, בעל עגלה
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