Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heavy harness for a team of horses used with a heavy coach.
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The estate being, to use his own words, 'so like the old coach-harness, so full of knots, splices, and entanglements, there was not another man in Ireland could make it work, and if another were to try it, it would all come to pieces in his hands.'
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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