[f. sb.: cf. Ger. kutschen 16th c.]
1. trans. To convey in, seat in, provide with, a coach. Also fig. ? Obs.
1612. Dekker, If it be not good, etc. Wks. 1873, III. 270. Bring ’em all in coach’d, the gates are wide enough.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whis., III. 1066. She must be coatcht, forsooth, and bravely ride.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Job xxvi. 9. Christ was by a cloud coached up to heaven. Ibid., 2 Thess. i. 3. Adversity hath whipt many a soul to heaven … which otherwise prosperity had coached to hell.
1728. Pope, Dunciad, III. 291. The needy poet sticks to all he meets; Coach’d, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
1761. Brit. Mag., II. 598. The ladies being safely coached under the escorte of the lawyer.
a. 1849. J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 230. [He] goes coached to Satan’s ball.
2. intr. To ride or drive in a coach. (Also to coach it.) colloq.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentl. (1641), 393. This day, you Coach to th’ Exchange.
c. 1632. Fuller, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 222. All the Gentry coacht it up to the City.
1797. Month. Mag., IV. 134. To coach it thro’ the town.
1880. Webster, Supp.
† b. trans. To traverse in a coach. Obs.
1693. R. Gould, Corruption of Times, 11. When he does Coach the Streets.
1805. Ann. Rev., III. 299. Splendour coaches the streets.
3. University colloq., etc. [see COACH sb. 3.] a. trans. To prepare (a candidate) for an examination; to instruct in special subjects; to tutor; also, to train for an athletic contest, as a boat-race.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, iii. He’s coaching me and some other men for the little go.
1867. Daily Tel., 14 Feb., 2/6. The crew being ‘coached’ by Mr. F. Willan and Mr. G. Morrison, from the former gentleman’s steamboat.
1881. Athenæum, No. 2806. Advt., Students coached in Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica and Physics.
1887. Sir R. H. Roberts, In the Shires, viii. 128. These young ladies, although ably coached by their mother, had failed, [etc.].
b. intr. To ‘read’ or study with a ‘coach.’
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, iii. Are you stopping at Baymouth?… I’m coaching there.
1889. Oxford Tutor to Undergrad., ‘Would you like to coach this term, Mr. M.?’
