hackney

CEFRC2

/ˈhækni/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A horse or carriage available for public hire.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A town in eastern London, England, within this borough (OS grid ref TQ3584).

Examples

  • She took a hackney to the airport.

  • The old hackney carriage rattled down the street.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An English habitational surname from Old English.

  2. An ordinary horse.

  3. A carriage for hire or a cab.

More examples

In context

  • The hackney carriage was old-fashioned.

  • Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experience How unhappy's the fate To live by one's pate And to be forced to write hackney for bread.

  • hackney authors

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The old-fashioned horse-drawn carriage, called a blank, clattered down the cobblestone street.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

The senses "a horse" and "(a means of transport) available for hire" derive from the fact that many horses were kept for hire in the London borough of Hackney. The place name is from Old English *Hacan īeġ "Hacan's Isle" (or "Hook's Island"), referring to dry land in a marsh.