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hackney
Part of speech: VerbTo wear out by constant use; make commonplace.
Part of speech: AdjectiveLet out for hire; common or trite.
Part of speech: NounA coach, or a horse, kept for hire; a nag.
Part of speech: Past tense Part of speech: Past participleHackneying.
Usage examples "hackney":- Lambeth thus became three boroughs- Lambeth, Camberwell, and Newington- each with its own divisions; Hackney was severed into the boroughs of Hackney, Shoreditch, and Bethnal Green; Marylebone into the boroughs of Marylebone, Paddington, St. Pancras, and Hampstead; and so throughout the metropolis. - "Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day", Alfred Farthing Robbins.
- 2225. Carriages in an endless variety of shapes and names are continually making their appearance; but the hackney cab or clarence seems most in request for light carriages; the family carriage of the day being a modified form of the clarence adapted for family use. - "The Book of Household Management", Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
- But he came in an hour panting back, to say that Mrs. H. had packed and locked her trunks, and had gone off in a hackney- coach. - "The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond", William Makepeace Thackeray.