hackman N.Amer.
(ˈhækmən)
[f. hack n.3 2.]
The driver of a hack or hackney-carriage; a cabman.
| 1796 Boston Directory, passim. 1806 Repertory (Boston) 3 Oct. (Th.), Died, in this town, Mr. Daniel Henry, hackman. 1819 N.Y. Gaz. in Massachusetts Spy 16 June 3/1 The horses were stopt by the hackmen on the stand. 1850 Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1883) 370 We find ourselves in Boston surrounded by eager hackmen. 1879 Sala in Daily Tel. 26 Dec., The..hackman..charged us a dollar and a half for what in England would have been an eighteenpenny drive. 1898 H. E. Hamblen Tom Benton's Luck 56 The line of vociferous hackmen who formed a gauntlet across the exit from the railroad station. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Jan. 5/4 A hack case is being heard in the city police court, in which one of the local hackmen is being charged with overcharging. |