equipage vs four-in-hand

four-in-hand vs equipage

equipage and four-in-hand both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
equipage	Yes	No	No	No
four-in-hand	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, four-in-hand is a hyponym of equipage; that is, four-in-hand is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than equipage:

equipage: a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
four-in-hand: a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver

Other hyponyms of equipage include barouche, brougham, buckboard, buggy, roadster, cab, cabriolet, caroche, chaise, shay, chariot, clarence, coach-and-four, coach, droshky, drosky, gharry, gig, hackney, hackney carriage, hackney coach, hansom, hansom cab, landau, post chaise, stanhope, surrey, trap, troika.

equipage (noun)	four-in-hand (noun)
a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses	a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver
equipment and supplies of a military force	a long necktie that is tied in a slipknot with one end hanging in front of the other

Difference between equipage and four-in-hand

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