A coachman, especially one who drives at a rattling pace.
“The watchman told, saying, … . The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.”—2 Kings ix. 20.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.