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hackney
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tags: [dated] [equestrian]
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Definition:a horse, carriage or other vehicle for hire; a cab
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You can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight to me.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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they come mounted on three piebald cackneys, the finest sight ever you saw.”
“Hackneys, you mean, Sancho,” said Don Quixote.
“There is not much difference between cackneys and hackneys,” said Sancho;
Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote (1885)
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"[...] Mrs. Long does not keep a carriage, and had come to the ball in a hack chaise."
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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