hackney coach
noun
a four-wheeled carriage having six seats and drawn by two horses.
Origin of hackney coach
1First recorded in 1615–25
Words Nearby hackney coach
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How to use hackney coach in a sentence
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.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysWe took her to Birch's; we provided her with a hackney-coach and every lucksury, and carried her home to Islington.
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush | William Makepeace ThackerayDuring his second winter in Edinburgh, Burns met with a hackney coach accident which kept him to the house for six weeks.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol X | VariousBy the powerful old gentleman's aid, even a hackney-coach gets over half a mile of ground.
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensThey have been whipped by them, as no sober postillion would whip a hackney coach horse.
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