HACKNEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hackney mean? 

• HACKNEY (noun)
  The noun HACKNEY has 2 senses:

1. a carriage for hire

2. a compact breed of harness horse

  Familiarity information: HACKNEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HACKNEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A carriage for hire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hackney; hackney carriage; hackney coach

Hypernyms ("hackney" is a kind of...):

carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hackney"):

four-wheeler (a hackney carriage with four wheels)

remise (an expensive or high-class hackney)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A compact breed of harness horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hackney" is a kind of...):

harness horse (horse used for pulling vehicles)

 Context examples 

Be guarded in crossing the London streets, for I am told that the hackney coaches are past all imagining.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sir Nigel and Ford had ridden on in advance, the knight upon his hackney, while his great war-horse trotted beside his squire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose this unfortunate fowl was born and brought up in a cellar, said my aunt, and never took the air except on a hackney coach-stand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I can remember that a black clock was ticking loudly upon the mantelpiece, and that every now and then, amid the rumble of the hackney coaches, we could hear boisterous laughter from some inner chamber.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a hackney coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)