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HACKNEY CARRIAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hackney carriage mean? 

HACKNEY CARRIAGE (noun)
  The noun HACKNEY CARRIAGE has 1 sense:

1. a carriage for hireplay

  Familiarity information: HACKNEY CARRIAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HACKNEY CARRIAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A carriage for hire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hackney; hackney carriage; hackney coach

Hypernyms ("hackney carriage" 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 carriage"):

four-wheeler (a hackney carriage with four wheels)

remise (an expensive or high-class hackney)


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