hackney coach

noun

1. hackney ( def 1 ).
2. a four-wheeled carriage having six seats and drawn by two horses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hackney coach¹

First recorded in 1615–25

Example Sentences

So my wife and I took leave of my Ladies, and home by a hackney-coach, the easiest that ever I met with, and so to bed.

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We took her to Birch's; we provided her with a hackney-coach and every lucksury, and carried her home to Islington.

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During his second winter in Edinburgh, Burns met with a hackney coach accident which kept him to the house for six weeks.

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By the powerful old gentleman's aid, even a hackney-coach gets over half a mile of ground.

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They have been whipped by them, as no sober postillion would whip a hackney coach horse.

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