NOUN
- a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
- a long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other
How To Use four-in-hand In A Sentence
- Before the invention of the four-in-hand, carriages with four horses had to have two drivers.
- QUOTATION: That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. Quotations
- From its doors tandem and four-in-hands were wont to start for a run to New Rochelle.
- These festivities included a contest in music, a dance to symbolize the defeat of the giants by the gods, a race for four-in-hands, and finally a gymnastic tournament.
- A second temple was located at the Circus Maximus, near the race-tracks, where he was considered to be the protector of the four-in-hands which joined the races.
- A little tuft of dark-brown hair spilled over the top of his clip-on four-in-hand tie. TALES OF THE CITY
- They're also called four-in-hands and are perfect for more casual - yet still elegant - wedding looks.
- In New York City, there was an annual coaching parade during which such rigs as four-in-hands and tally-hos coursed down Fifth Avenue.
- He was shaven, and his coat was decent and his neat black, ready - tied four-in-hand had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day.
- riatta" over their heads, he had them as much under his command as ever a crack dragsman had his four-in-hand in the good old coaching times of my own dear England. California Four Months among the Gold-Finders, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts
