coachfellow

noun — 2 senses

coachfellow

noun

Etymology From coach + fellow.

1

One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach.

2

Figuratively A comrade.

  • […] I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym […]c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

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