1. stage-coach - Noun
2. stage-coach - Verb
stage-coach (plural stage-coaches)
(historical) A horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between two destinations to transport passengers and mail.
stage-coach (third-person singular simple present stage-coaches, present participle stage-coaching, simple past and past participle stage-coached)
To travel by stage-coach.
stage coach
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach. Oliver Goldsmith
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. Edward de Bono
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. Frances Willard