hackney
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Black hackney cabs are meant to be the only cars you can hail on the street, but the app technology and smartphones changed that and meant people started "e-hailing" minicabs.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
I live in London, where there is a centuries-old licensed hackney carriage trade.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
“This hackney driver exhibited exemplary behavior and his honest deed should be recognized,” Police Commissioner William Evans said in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2016
“It’s a girl” was shouted from the rafters of the BT Tower to the more plebeian heights of London’s hackney cabs.
From US News ● May 4, 2015
He had some dreadful troubles trying to borrow horses from people, and finally ended up on a groom’s hackney, can tering after Galahad as fast as it could go.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Polo ponies, saddle horses, hunters, pony tandems, draft horses, tandems, hackneys, artillery horses strapped to caissons, police mounts, jumpers, saddle tandems, road hacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had used 64 English hackneys, posted along the route two weeks before the run.
From Time Magazine Archive
So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another, with a like acreage, specializes in hackneys.
From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by Head, James William
Even a pair of Percherons which were perfectly placid in St. Louis, where I got them, stepped up like hackneys when they reached Denver.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian
