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Anne | January 1st, 2008 | No Comments »A coach. Rattle and prad; a coach and horses.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A coach. Rattle and prad; a coach and horses.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A coach, cart, or other wheeled carriage.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
A hackney coachman.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Listed in the Vulgar Tongue as jarvis, but also seen in books as jarvey.
(An abbreviation of the word DILIGENCE.) A public voiture or stage, commonly a post chaise, carrying three persons; the name is taken from the public stage vehicles in France and Flanders. The dillies first began to run in England about the year 1779.
–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.