stanhope

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Timothy is off to-day; I will harness the grays to the stanhope, as we can't wait to send to the stable, and we will drive over the back way by the Ridge and be home again by dinner time.

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  1. noun A light, open, horse-drawn carriage with one seat and two or four wheels.

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  • He hurried me into the stanhope, gave the rein to his active grey mare, and making a detour towards Kingston, we soon left the crowd behind us I will never bet on a horse again," said Jack, ruminating on his loss. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
  • The stanhope is all to atoms, and the farmer claims compensation for the gate. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
  • Timothy is off to-day; I will harness the grays to the stanhope, as we can't wait to send to the stable, and we will drive over the back way by the Ridge and be home again by dinner time. —  People of the Whirlpool
  • She was leaning back in the comfortably rounded corner of the stanhope, her hands lax in her lap, her eyes often closed--a tired child of peace drinking in the peace furnished by the military, was Ann. —  The Visioning
  • The stanhope is in the coach-house, but the by-road was so full of stumps and cradle-hills, it was impossible to drive in it, and the moths have eaten the lining out. —  Nature and Human Nature
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  1. After the Reverend Fitzroy Stanhope (1787-1864), British clergyman.

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  1. So called after a Mr. Stanhope, for whom it was orig. contrived.
 

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