Word Meanings - COACHMANSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Skill in driving a coach.

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• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• COACH
  1. To convey in a coach. Pope. 2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. I coached him before he got his scholarship. G. Eliot.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• COACHMAN
  A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean ; -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. (more info) 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• COACHMANSHIP
  Skill in driving a coach.
• COACHFELLOW
  One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• DRIVEWAY
  A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
• COACHDOG
  One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
• DRIVEBOLT
  A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.
• COACHEE
  A coachman
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• DRIVING
  1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm. 2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. -- Driving box , the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust.
• COACHWHIP SNAKE
  A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States Note: Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name.
• DRIVEPIPE
  A pipe for forcing into the earth.
• SKILLET
  A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat. (more info) ecuelle, fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish. Cf. Scuttle
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.
• FULL-DRIVE
  With full speed.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• HOME-DRIVEN
  Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
• CONTINENTAL DRIVE
  A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch, change-speed gear, countershaft, and two parallel side chains, in order.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• QUADRIVALVULAR
  Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• INCOACH
  To put a coach.