post-chaise
post-chaise is the alternative form of post chaise.
Meaning of post chaise
Noun
post chaise (plural post chaises)
- An enclosed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, used to transport mail and passengers.
- She had lately remitted the trespass of a stage-coachman, who had overturned her post-chaise into a ditch;1749, Henry Fielding, chapter IX, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI
Verb
post-chaise (third-person singular simple present post-chaised, present participle post-chaised, simple past and past participle post-chaising)
- To travel in a post-chaise.
- "Conceive, then, the state he will be in after post-chaising for twenty-five miles at a gallop."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19
Forms of post-chaise
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | post-chaises |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | post-chaised |
| present participle | post-chaised |
| past participle | post-chaising |
| past | post-chaising |
Questions about post-chaise
- What does post-chaise mean?
- Post-chaise means to travel in a post-chaise.
- What is post-chaise the alternative form of?
- Post-chaise is the alternative form of post chaise.
- What part of speech is post-chaise?
- Post-chaise is a verb.
- What is the past tense of post-chaise?
- The past tense of post-chaise is post-chaising.
Words near post-chaise in the dictionary
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