Meaning of four-in-hand | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver.
2. A slip knot with one end hanging in front of the other; a simple necktie.
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Examples

“‘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.”

“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.”

“He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.”

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