hackney

Uber is opening up its ride-hailing app to black-cab drivers in the new year, in what it has dubbed a "partnership" with hackney carriage drivers.

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

After the first official licensing of hackney carriage drivers in 1838 and the formalisation, decades later, of “the Knowledge”, London’s black cab drivers ruled the roads more or less unchallenged.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2016

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

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

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

Frequent mention is made of hackneys and trotters in old farm accounts of the 14th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Do not men breed racehorses, which are useless for any practical kind of work, but which preserve the purity of the breed and become the sires of excellent hackneys and hunters?

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch