Bible Dictionaries
Blackcoat

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A clergyman; - familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blackcoat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/blackcoat.html. 1828.