HACKNEY
\hˈaknɪ], \hˈaknɪ], \h_ˈa_k_n_ɪ]\
Definitions of HACKNEY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
-
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.
-
Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
-
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.
-
A hackney coach.
By Oddity Software
-
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.
-
Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
-
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.
-
A hackney coach.
By Noah Webster.
-
A hackney coach.
-
To use up; make stale by repetition.
-
Let out for hire; common.
-
One of a valued breed of horses.
By James Champlin Fernald
-
To wear out by constant use; make commonplace.
-
Let out for hire; common or trite.
-
A coach, or a horse, kept for hire; a nag.
-
Hackneyed.
-
Hackneying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
A horse for general use, esp. for hire.
-
To carry in a hackney-coach: to use much: to make commonplace.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
