Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The seat on which the driver of a coach sits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The seat of a coachman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
coachman 'sseat on the vehicle.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then put on your livery, and seat yourself next to Kalman on the coachbox.
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Pisani, the Venetian Ambassador, and Count Fersen, helped her on the coachbox, where she rode disguised.
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Pisani, the Venetian Ambassador, and Count Fersen, helped her on the coachbox, where she rode disguised.
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Pisani, the Venetian Ambassador, and Count Fersen, helped her on the coachbox, where she rode disguised.
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That aint a sort of man to see sitting behind a coachbox, is it though?
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Hence, after a night of pale and speechless melancholy, the gay, animated, happy countenance with which he sprang to our coachbox to take his old seat on it, and accompany us to Rotterdam.
Washington Irving Warner, Charles D 1881
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And I have heard much when I've been on the coachbox.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger August Strindberg 1880
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The astonishment of the ostlers at seeing the horses covered with lather, and coachbox tenanted only by two boys, behind whom a little white face now peered out, was extreme, and they were unable to get beyond an ejaculation of hallo! expressive of a depth of incredulous astonishment impossible to be rendered by words.
The Young Buglers 1867
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Hence, after a night of pale and speechless melancholy, the gay, animated, happy countenance with which he sprang to our coachbox to take his old seat on it, and accompany us to Rotterdam.
Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I cannot better describe their vehicle, than by comparing it to a canoe mounted on four wheels, connected by a long perch, with a coachbox at the bow, and three gig bodies hung athwart ships, or slung inside of the canoe, by leather thongs.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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