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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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COACH, n. Sc. usages: 1. A child's perambulator, a pram, freq. in dim. coachie (‡Abd., Ags. 1975).Abd. 1880 W. Robbie Glendornie i.:
Little Tommy had been placed in his “coachie” as usual, and had only been wheeled a few yards away from the door. Abd. 1930:
The bairn was sleepin in its coachie. A peer dilet craiter wi ae bairn at her tails an' anither in her oxter an' hurlin a coach forbye.

2. The shell of a crab (Fif. 1955).