coach·man

[kohch-muhn]
noun, plural coach·men.
1.
a man employed to drive a coach or carriage.
2.
Angling. royal coachman.

Origin:
1570–80; coach + man

un·der·coach·man, noun, plural un·der·coach·men.
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coachman (ˈkəʊtʃmən) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -men
1.  the driver of a coach or carriage
2.  a fishing fly with white wings and a brown hackle

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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses, and dogs.
Outside, a coachman and a footman stood at the ready.
Then he ordered his coachman into it and had farmworkers pull it down a slope until it gained enough speed to fly.
His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge.
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