Synonyms for hackney

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hak-nee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæk ni

Définition of hackney

Origin : late 12c., from Old English Hacan ieg "Haca's Isle" (or possibly "Hook Island"), the "isle" element here meaning dry land in a marsh. Now well within London, it once was pastoral and horses apparently were kept there. Hence hackney "small saddle horse let out for hire" (c.1300), with subsequent deterioration of sense (see hack (n.2)). And cf. French haquenée "ambling nag," an English loan-word.

As in cab : noun car for hire
As in hack : noun taxicab

Example sentences :

Not one, save the hackney carman, who evidently did not know him.
Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

I hailed the first hackney carriage I met and drove to my rooms.
Extract from : « In Direst Peril » by David Christie Murray

It was late in the night when we turned homewards in a hackney carriage.
Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore

Then Sir Percivale mounted upon that hackney, and rode as fast as he might.
Extract from : « Stories of King Arthur and His Knights » by U. Waldo Cutler

Half the hackney coachmen, he says, were in league with thieves.
Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen

Then he asked me, "which was the first hackney coach stand?"
Extract from : « The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, » by William Brodie Gurney

Before the west end of the church was the first stand for hackney coaches.
Extract from : « The Strand District » by Sir Walter Besant

The hackney resumes all which it had lost in the good graces of the fair authoress.
Extract from : « Coaches and Coaching » by Leigh Hunt

This is the individual character and peculiar fascination of Hackney Marsh.
Extract from : « Birds in London » by W. H. Hudson

And this was not strange, for there is really nothing like Hackney Marsh in London.
Extract from : « Birds in London » by W. H. Hudson

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