hackney-man
(ˈhæknɪmæn)
Forms: see hackney n.
[f. hackney n. + man.]
A man who keeps hackney horses or hackney-carriages for hire; † a servant who attends to a hackney.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 161 Hikke þe hakeney mon and hogge þe neldere. 1467 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 398 Paid to the hakneyman in party of payment of the horse that my mastyr hered to ryde to Stoke. 1599 Soliman & Perseda i. in Hazl. Dodsley V. 281 A hackney-man Should have ten shillings for horsing a gentle-woman. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II §56 (1876) 43 In the same stable shalbe an hackneyman, who shal keepe the hakene of the house. 1628 Earle Microcosm., Carrier (Arb.) 36 A carryer is his own Hackneyman; for hee lets himselfe out to trauell as well as his horses. 1797 Wolcott (P. Pindar) Out at Last Wks. 1812 III. 500 The Hackneymen..Shall cry ‘My money for my Chaise’. 1845 Disraeli Sybil (1863) 190 The straggling yard of a hackneyman. |