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