post chaise

noun, verb — 2 senses

post chaise

nounalso spelled post-chaise

/ˈpəʊstʃeɪz/

1

Historical An enclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, used to transport mail and passengers.

  • She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI:

post-chaise

verb
1

To travel in a post-chaise.

  • "Conceive, then, the state he will be in after post-chaising for twenty-five miles at a gallop."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19:

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