verbal subs. (common).—1.  Instruction; training, etc.—See COACH, subs. French students call it la barbe.

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  1836.  Pluck Examination Papers for Candidates at Oxford and Cambridge, by SCRIBLERUS REDIVIVUS [Oxford]. The system of COACHING pupils considerably improved by the examiners becoming pupils.

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  2.  (Rugby School).—A flogging. Now obsolete.

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