tallyho
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A name for a mail-coach or a four-in-hand pleasure coach; by extension, in the United States, a general name for such coaches.
- noun A hunting cry: a mere exclamation.
- verb To urge or excite, as hounds, by crying 'Tally-ho.'
Examples
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We went out to Jarvis field on a tallyho from Boston, and I recall how eagerly we dashed upon the field, anxious for the scrap to begin.
Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball
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'Oh, no, he hasn't,' declared Frick, shaking his head dismally; 'we haven't any of us seen him, and Larry's been run over by Mr. MacIlvaine's tallyho, and 'most smashed to death.'
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And all sorts of gorgeous carriages that wuz ever seen or hearn on, and carts, and wagons, and buggies, from a tallyho coach to a invalid's chair and a wheelbarrow, and from a toboggan to a bicycle, and palanquins of Japan, China, India, and Africa.
Note
Tallyho originated around 1773 as a hunting cry. In the early 1800s, it was the proper name of a passenger day-coach, or, in railroading, an ‘ordinary passenger-car. . .as distinguished from a sleeping-car,’ that traveled between London and Birmingham, and came to refer to any fast coach. In the U.S., tallyho came to refer to the four-in-hand coach, ‘a vehicle drawn by four horses driven by one person.’
