hackney
- noun
- /ˈhækni/
- Archaic
:
coche de alquiler
- So we buy taxis, black Hackney carriages, we make sure they're fully inspected, well, from inside and out.
- hackney cab
Examples
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He called a passing hackney, handed her in, and instructed her to wait for him.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sophie waved down a hackney to take her to the theater on a rainy evening.
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Maria and I took a hackney from the coaching inn where the London stage ended its journey to No.
Fiction book (1998) -
They locked up the building and took the night watchman home in their hired hackney.
Fiction book (1990) -
For once in your life, Scarlett, you're p328. Scarlett clapped her hands with delight when the hackney pulled up in front of Grandfather Robillard's house.
Fiction book (1991) -
The hackney carried passengers through the cobbled streets of London in the 1800s.
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After dinner, they hired a hackney to ride back to their hotel in comfort.
Synonyms
382
1.0
A car with a driver people pay to drive them to a place
100
4.7
A wheeled vehicle pulled by horses to carry people
10
8.8
A small two-wheeled carriage with two seats and a folding hood
4
5.1
A vehicle with four wheels like a carriage or taxi that people pay to use
3
9.9
A small light two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage for two people with a folding hood
2
9.9
A small two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse with a covered seat for passengers and a driver behind
1
9.9
A light open carriage with two wheels that two horses pull, used in the past for personal travel
1
9.9
An open two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse originally used in Ireland to carry people
A taxi allowed to pick up people on the street
A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage people hired in cities long ago
A car you pay to take you where you want in a city
A small horse-drawn carriage people hire like a taxi in old Paris
A closed carriage pulled by horses that carries four people
A light four-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse, often with a fringed top
A small, light carriage pulled by one horse for one person
Compounds
How Modern
382
1.0
- UK
- UK
- Archaic
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hackney for a carriage also comes from the London place Hackney, where horses and carriages were kept 'for hire'. So a hackney carriage was a hired vehicle, like an old 'taxi'.