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  • n  a long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other
  • n  a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver

  • But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards, sounding an ancient English horn in the good Irish air.
  • Sportsman William Henry Vander-"hilt, whose four-in-hand coach was used as a model for the current edition of Christmas seals of the National Tuberculosis Association (PTI, Dec .
  • Prince Philip had a nasty fall when his four-in-hand overturned in Windsor Great Park, throwing him under the horses' hooves.

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