ˈhackney-ˈcoachman
The driver of a hackney-coach.
| c 1610 Middleton, etc. Widow v. i, My master kisses, as I've heard a hackney-coachman Chear up his mare; chap, chap. 1705 Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. viii. 77 Chiefly..Design'd against common Carriers, Waggoners, Hackney Coachmen, and Watermen. 1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. ii, Mr. Bonney bustled up..and knocked a hackney-coachman's knock on the table with a little hammer. |