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four-in-hand

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four-in-hand (fôrn-hnd, fr-)
n.
1. A team of four horses controlled by one driver.
2. A vehicle drawn by four horses.
3. A necktie tied in a slipknot with long ends left hanging one in front of the other.

four-in-hand
n
1. (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Also called tally-ho a road vehicle drawn by four horses and driven by one driver
2. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) a four-horse team in a coach or carriage
3. (Clothing & Fashion) a long narrow tie formerly worn tied in a flat slipknot with the ends dangling
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Noun1.four-in-handfour-in-hand - a long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other
necktie, tie - neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front; "he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie"; "he wore a vest and tie"
2.four-in-hand - a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
box seat, box - the driver's seat on a coach; "an armed guard sat in the box with the driver"
carriage, equipage, rig - a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
stagecoach, stage - a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"


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He was a first-rate driver; he could take a four-in-hand or a tandem as easily as a pair.
A stiff commissariat officer of sixty, famous as a martinet, had then become enamoured of the gravity with which she drove the proprieties four-in-hand through the cathedral town society, and had solicited to be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed.
I've heard of your four-in-hand, and your yacht, and your racers, and that beautiful house in Park Lane.
 
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