HACKNEY

n. a. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer.

2.
n.

A horse or pony kept for hire.

3.
n.

A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

4.
n.

A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

5.
a.

Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors. "Hackney tongue." Roscommon.

6.
v.

To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. Had I lavish of my presence been, So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. Shak.

7.
v.

To carry in a hackney coach. Cowper.

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