hackney
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Southampton City Council regulates the maximum fares for licensed hackney carriage vehicles within the city boundary, which means drivers have to "bite the bullet" and soak up those increased costs, McMillan said.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
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
“Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption! And, besides, no traces of them were to be found on the Barnet road.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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
For you can't take a shilling fare with a plough as you do with the hackneys in town.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Elf, 246.Thomas a Fearie, 230.Threats against traitor, 201.Tree, 238-239.White hackneys, 242.Women, 238-240, 241, 243, 244, 245, 246.Familiars, 93-95, 184, 205-237." as gods, 219, 220."
From The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray
