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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tool

To tool a coach. To drive one; generally applied to a gentleman Jehu, who undertakes for his own amusement to drive a stage-coach. To tool is to use the tool as a workman; a coachman's tools are the reins and whip with which he tools his coach or makes his coach go.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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