What does hackney mean?
Hackney means (archaic) An ordinary horse..
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/ˈhækni/ · noun
(archaic) An ordinary horse..
"Mamma would die if she knew. The boy," replied Georgiana, "walked with us to Oxford Street, and we took a hackney-coach. Will Mrs. Gooch ever forgive us for getting out of it at her door?"
Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread.
hackney coaches
hackney authors
his accumulative and hackney tongue
[…] To her, who, frugal only that her thrift / May feed excesses she can ill afford, / Is hackneyed home unlackeyed; […]
Use hackney when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hackney means (archaic) An ordinary horse..
Common synonyms include hackney coach.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Mamma would die if she knew. The boy," replied Georgiana, "walked with us to Oxford Street, and we took a hackney-coach. Will Mrs. Gooch ever forgive us for getting out of it at her door?"
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