What does devil's coach-horse mean?

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devil's coach-horse

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

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A large black European rove beetle, Staphylinus olens or Ocypus olens.

devil's coach-horses (plural) devil's coachhorse (alternative)

What does devil's coach-horse mean?: A large black European rove beetle, Staphylinus olens or Ocypus olens.

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