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Hackney coach | carriage - Britannica
Hackney coach usually refers to a four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses and holding six passengers.
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HACKNEY COACH Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of HACKNEY COACH is a coach kept for hire; especially : a four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses and having seats for six persons.
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Hackney carriage - Wikipedia
A hackney or hackney carriage is a carriage or car for hire. A symbol of London and Britain, the black taxi is a common sight on the streets of London.
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hackney-coachman
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 D...
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The Hackney Coach in the 1830s - Two Nerdy History Girls
The other is a hackney cab (or cabriolet), which looks a bit more like the hansom cabs that appear later in the century. Dickens distinguishes ...
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A Hackney Coachman - London Picture Archive
"Miseries of London, or a surly saucy hackney coachman"; a hackney coachman, holding a coin in his hand, disputes the fare with two passengers in a doorway.
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hackney-coach
ˈhackney-ˈcoach [f. hackney n. 6 c + coach.] A four-wheeled coach, drawn by two horses, and seated for six persons, kept for hire.c 1610 [implied in hackney-coachman]. 1635 J. Taylor (Water P.) Old Parr D iv, They [Coaches] have increased..to the undoing of the Watermen, by the multitudes of Hackney...
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What Is a Hackney Cab? - Loretta Chase
The cab was a two-wheeled, one-horse vehicle. It held only two passengers, and seemed to be generally regarded as a mode of transportation for ...
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Hackney Coaches or Cabs: Their History - geriwalton.com
Hackney coaches, which were the idea of a man named Captain Bailey, were originally one-horse chaises. The term was once believed to have ...
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The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
I'm not quite so good but I wish I may mend;. I repent of my sins, since we all are depraved,. For a coachman, I hold, has a soul to be saved.
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hackney coachman, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun hackney coachman is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for hackney coachman is from 1623, in the writing of John ...
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The Hackney Coach & Waterman - Two Nerdy History Girls
Hackney coachmen, who drove individuals to specific destinations, mainly in London, are not to be confused with stage coachmen, who traveled the ...
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Coach (carriage)
Can also be used to describe a coach used by mourners following a Hearse
Hackney coach or a coach for hire. By 1637 there were 50 Hackney coaches for hire in London and Westminster.
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Limousine
History
Rich owners of expensive carriages and their passengers were accustomed to their own private compartments leaving their coachman or driver outside United Kingdom
Due to the partition behind the driver, the Hackney carriages are a type of limousine, although not typically identified as such in Britain
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Jehu
Jehu humorous. (ˈdʒiːhjuː) [In allusion to 2 Kings ix. 20 ‘the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he driveth furiously’.] a. A fast or furious driver. b. A driver, a coachman.1682 Dryden Medal 119 But this new Jehu spurs the hot-mouth'd horse. 1682 S. Pordage Medal Rev. 124 A...
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