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/kˈoʊtʃɪŋ/ Listen

noun

coaching n. The job of a professional coach.

Synonyms: coaching job.

verb

Coach v. t. (past & past part. coached; pres. part. coaching)

To convey in a coach.

To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. (Colloq.) "I coached him before he got his scholarship."

Coach v. i. To drive or to ride in a coach; sometimes used with it. (Colloq.) "Coaching it to all quarters."

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Etymology of 'Coaching'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coaching" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the vacant part, Charteris gave his energy free play. He conducted rehearsals with a vigor which occasionally almost welded the rabble which he was coaching into something approaching coherency. He never rested. He painted scenery, and left it about—wet—and people sat on it. He nailed up horseshoes for luck, and they fell on people. He distributed typed parts of ...

— The Gem Collector • P. G. Wodehouse

... contemporaries unite in praise of his performance of Hamlet. Downes has an interesting note in his Roscius Anglicanus showing how, in the acting of this part, Betterton benefited by Shakespeare's coaching: "Sir William Davenant (having seen Mr. Taylor, of the Black Fryars Company, act it; who being instructed by the author, Mr. Shakespear) taught Mr. Betterton in every particle of it, gained him esteem and reputation ...

— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith

... Mr. James Harthouse in the meantime on a round of visits to the voting and interesting notabilities of Coketown and its vicinity. The round of visits was made; and Mr. James Harthouse, with a discreet use of his blue coaching, came off triumphantly, though with ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... London line, would be our next centre were it not so new and suburban. Fortunately Cuckfield, which has two coaching inns and many of the signs of the leisurely past, is close by, in the midst of very interesting country, with a church standing high on the ridge to the south of the town, broadside to the Weald, its spire a landmark for miles. Cuckfield Place ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... of his illustrations to "Once a Week,"[126] which represents a schoolboy perched in the topmost branches of a tree overlooking the walls of the Carthusian playground. As the mail coaches bound to the north passed the Charterhouse walls in the old coaching days, the boys not seeing any just reason why they should be debarred from the exhilarating spectacle, notched the trees and drove in spikes at ticklish points, which enabled them to mount to the upper branches, ...

— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt

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