coach box

American  

noun

1. the seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.

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coach box British  

noun

1. the seat of a coachman on a horse-drawn carriage or coach

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Etymology

Origin of coach box

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

Sports Bog: Mike Milbury says the bad guys won Timeline: Bruce Boudreau’s tenure as Capitals coach Box Seats: Hunter is the storybook choice, but is he the right one?

From Washington Post

Timeline: Bruce Boudreau’s tenure as Capitals coach Box Seats: Hunter is the storybook choice, but is he the right one?

From Washington Post

This Money was not to be trusted by the Waggon, but to be carryed up with her in the Coach box, for which her Man Tom beg'd her acceptance of a little Gilt leather'd Trunk that happen'd to be just small enough to go into the Coach-box.

From Project Gutenberg

The miles and miles that me and the Major have travelled with Jemmy in the dusk between the lights are not to be calculated, Jemmy driving on the coach box, which is the Major’s brass-bound writing desk on the table, me inside in the easy-chair, and the Major Guard up behind with a brown-paper horn doing it really wonderful.

From Project Gutenberg

The company went away in a berlingo and four, and the footman Michel, on a saddle-horse; the carriage, after the manner here, being drawn by four post-horses, with two postilions, the berlingo having no coach box.

From Project Gutenberg