stage-driver

[ steyj-drahy-ver ]

noun

1. the driver of a stagecoach.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stage-driver¹

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

When the stage-driver found us unable to pay our fare, he held on upon our baggage as security for the debt.

From Literature

Here we were startled by the familiar sound of the coach whip, and saw a stage-driver flogging in the severest style four heated, panting, and overpowered horses, coming in with a heavily laden coach; the lash was perpetually laid on; even the keenest at the draught were flogged, that they might pull on the rest, and the less powerful were flogged to keep up with them.

From Project Gutenberg

Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, A gray discouraged sky overhead, the short, last daylight of December, A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.

From Project Gutenberg

Have you ever read the account of the stage-driver's funeral?

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"We'll take no chances, though," declared the stage-driver.

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