uncoach
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uncoach (third-person singular simple present uncoaches, present participle uncoaching, simple past and past participle uncoached)
- (obsolete) To detach from a coach (vehicle).
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- These, here arriv'd, the mules uncoach'd, and drave
Up to the gulfy river's shore, that gave
Sweet grass to them.
- (transitive) To unteach
- 2014, Charles Martin, A Life Intercepted:
- Following my run with him, I was less concerned about his physical skills and strength as I was unwiring or uncoaching what had been imprinted into his mind.