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hackman

[hak-muhn, -man] / ˈhæk mən, -ˌmæn /


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While his grandmother was paying the hackman, the child discovered that the seats of these chairs lifted up in a miraculous manner.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

When Tim, the hackman, went into town with his first load he was forewarned by Aunty Rose that he would have company going back.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

Should she fall, it was not likely that she would escape harm, as had Tim, the hackman.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

This was the report Tim, the hackman, had brought in.

From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott

“When we got out of the carriage the hackman took off his hat and said: ‘If the carriage were mine, you shouldn’t pay a cent.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 by Various

The cries of "hackmen, photographers and vendors of gimcracks," wrote a horrified Henry James, "at times drown out the thunder of the cataract."

From Time Magazine Archive

The loquacious hackmen fell back as if by magic.

From Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love by Laura Jean Libbey

The pier reminded me of Boston or New York, but it lacked the huge warehouses and cheerful hackmen to render the similarity complete.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox

And street-cars furnish still less room to spare, And hackmen several times have earned their fare.

From City Ballads by Will Carleton

But mere grandeur of nature has no educating effect upon the soul of man; else, Switzerland would not have supplied Paris with footmen, and the hackmen of Niagara would spare the tourist.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various


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