Hackney is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HACKNEY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make trite
• To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
• To carry in a hackney coach.
• make commonplace and banal by too frequent use
NOUN:
• a four-wheeled two-horse carriage
• a horse or pony of a light breed with a high-stepping trot, used in harness.
• a horse-drawn vehicle kept for hire
• A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
• A horse or pony kept for hire.
• A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
• A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
• a carriage for hire
• a compact breed of harness horse
• taxi
ADJECTIVE:
• Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make common

Words related to HACKNEY

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Words that contain HACKNEY

hackneys20 hackneyed22 hackneying23 hackneyism24 hackneyman24 hackneymen24 hackneyisms25 unhackneyed24

How to use HACKNEY in a sentence

• After having my trunk examined, I hired a hackney coach and drove into Vienna.
• I ordered our carriage to move on, and I engaged what you call a hackney coach.
• When he entered the hackney coach and I followed him in, my heart gave such a thrill of joy that I could hardly keep from shouting aloud.
• Fawcett speak to his Hackney constituents at one of his campaign meetings.
• The hackney coach conveys alike the living and the dead.
• Early morning witnessed a procession of hackney coaches, laden as though we were bent on permanent emigration.
• John Hewlet, now master of a boarding-school at Shacklewel near Hackney, whom I shall have occasion to mention hereafter.
• Hackney, Kaiber, the native, as those who were to accompany me, and left the remainder under the command of Mr.
• For two days you will have to take hackney coaches to go to your business.
• He fulfilled his religious duties at Saint-Sulpice, never went out but on business, and then after dark, and in a hackney cab.
• He hailed a hackney cab on its way to a neighboring stand, and jumped into it with an air of affected indifference.
• Gale Jones, however, gratified them by allowing them not only to surround the hackney coach in which he departed from Newgate, but also to chalk his name upon the panels.
• Yet this is the method that rounds you into perfect hackney form.
• He is, in a word, full of the milk-and-water of human kindness, and his family lives near Hackney.
• Cabs, or hackney carriages, as they are called in English acts of parliament, are regulated in the United Kingdom by a variety of statutes.
• It is now universal on hackney carriages propelled by mechanical means, and it has also extended largely to those drawn by animal power.
• Cesar took a hackney coach, but stopped it several paces distant from the hotel, whose courtyard was crowded with carriages.
• The Lord Bishop did not approve of this transaction and demanded his hackney.
• A hackney coach was procured, into which the hapless victim of her own follies was carried.
• Clenche into a hackney coach, on pretence of taking him to see a patient.
• He died in Judd Street, London, in March, 1821, aged eighty-three, and was buried in Hackney churchyard, where a tombstone with a long inscription records his services.
• I was refused firmly but civilly at the Grand, the Metropole, the Grosvenor, and the Pig and Whistle Tavern, South East Hackney.
• Sir, said the yeoman, take mine hackney and do the best ye can, and I shall sewe you on foot to wit how that ye shall speed.
• Then Sir Percivale alighted upon that hackney, and rode as fast as he might, and at the last he saw that knight.
• And so they departed and rode into a valley, and there met with a squire which rode on an hackney, and they saluted him fair.
• Then forthwithal King Arthur alighted and unarmed him, and took a little hackney and rode after Sir Launcelot, for ever he had a spy upon him.
• During his second winter in Edinburgh, Burns met with a hackney coach accident which kept him to the house for six weeks.
• Lincoln and his stalwart friend, Colonel Lamon, slipped out of a side door to a hackney carriage, were driven to the railway station, and returned by the train to Philadelphia.
• Among the ten or fifteen equipages which I found drawn up in file, there was not one hackney vehicle.
• The Major sent for a hackney coach, and when we were going home he pointed out to me the folly of my conduct, and received my promise to be more careful for the future.
• Before I could tell him what a vulgar document it looked like, two more dirty strangers put me into a hackney coach.
• Davis thought John Abercrombie was competent to write a good practical work on gardening, and the Hackney dinner was intended to warm the way toward such a book.

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