Meanings
adverbcoachwise (not comparable)
- not comparableIn the manner of a coach (vehicle).
[…] and any day you may see from afar his princely idea borne coachwise along the spacious but yet empty avenues.
c. 1853, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “A Yankee in Canada. Chapter I. Concord to Montreal.”, in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1866, →OCLC, page 41 more example
[…] yoked coachwise and he that holds the plow drives them with two whip cords fastened to the fore horses and hung by two loopes upon each of his plough handles each of which he useth with great dexterity […]
quoted in 1968, Walter E. Minchinton, Essays in Agrarian History (volume 1, page 170)
Origin
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