Dictionary

four-in-hand en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver.
   • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
   • ‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park. 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 62:
2. (US) A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.
   • He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand. 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 293:

Forms

Synonyms

schoolboy knot · coach-and-four

Translations (1)

hu négyes fogat (carriage)