HANSOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hansom mean? 

• HANSOM (noun)
  The noun HANSOM has 1 sense:

1. a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers

  Familiarity information: HANSOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANSOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hansom; hansom cab

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

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

 Context examples 

We hired a hansom, and in half an hour we were at the address which had been given to us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll’s house.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Five minutes had not passed before we were flying in a hansom down Baker Street.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In Oxford Street we picked up a hansom and drove to an address in Hampstead.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you two will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the second.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dark man kept his eyes fixed on her, and when the carriage moved up Piccadilly he followed in the same direction, and hailed a hansom.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Flo and I, for the fun of it, ordered a hansom cab, while Aunt and Uncle were out, and went for a drive, though we learned afterward that it wasn't the thing for young ladies to ride in them alone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I passed you in a hansom.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Had you sat in the centre of a hansom you would probably have had no splashes, and if you had they would certainly have been symmetrical.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thereupon, I arranged my clothes as best I could, and summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street, the name of which I chanced to remember.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)