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four-in-hand

four-in-hand noun: a carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver.

four-in-hand: a carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver
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Noun

four-in-hand (plural four-in-hands)

  1. A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver.
    • ‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park.1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 62
    • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    coach-and-four
  2. (US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.
    • He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293
    Synonyms:
    schoolboy knot

four-in-hand meaning in Tamil

four-in-hand in Tamil

அசைந்தாடுமாறு கட்டப்படும் கழுத்துப்பட்டை, நான்கு குதிரைகள் பூட்டிய, நான்கு குதிரைகள் பூட்டிக்கொண்டு

Synonyms of four-in-hand

Forms of four-in-hand

pluralfour-in-hands

Questions about four-in-hand

What does four-in-hand mean?
Four-in-hand means a carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver.
What is four-in-hand in Tamil?
Four-in-hand in Tamil is அசைந்தாடுமாறு கட்டப்படும் கழுத்துப்பட்டை, நான்கு குதிரைகள் பூட்டிய, நான்கு குதிரைகள் பூட்டிக்கொண்டு. See Four-in-hand meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is four-in-hand?
Four-in-hand is a noun.
What is the plural of four-in-hand?
The plural of four-in-hand is four-in-hands.

Words near four-in-hand in the dictionary

  1. four-handed
  2. four-handedly
  3. four-handedness
  4. four-hankie
  5. four-hundredth
  6. four-in-hand
  7. four-in-hands
  8. four-leaf
  9. four-leaf clover
  10. four-leaf clovers
  11. four-leafed clover

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