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FOUR-IN-HAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
Synonyms:
coach; coach-and-four; four-in-hand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("four-in-hand" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Meronyms (parts of "four-in-hand"):
box; box seat (the driver's seat on a coach)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "four-in-hand"):
stage; stagecoach (a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("four-in-hand" is a kind of...):
necktie; tie (neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front)
Context examples:
As he spoke I suddenly saw the wheels of the four-in-hand disappear, then the body of it, and then the two figures upon the box, as suddenly and abruptly as if it had bumped down the first three steps of some gigantic stairs.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
