stage-coach
Speech parts
1. stage-coach - Noun
2. stage-coach - Verb
Meaning
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.
Alternative names
stage coach
Synonyms
Examples
In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.