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HACKNEY COACH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hackney coach mean?
• HACKNEY COACH (noun)
The noun HACKNEY COACH has 1 sense:
1. a carriage for hire
Familiarity information: HACKNEY COACH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A carriage for hire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
hackney; hackney carriage; hackney coach
Hypernyms ("hackney coach" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hackney coach"):
four-wheeler (a hackney carriage with four wheels)
remise (an expensive or high-class hackney)
Context examples
His principal object must be to discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from Clapham.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a hackney coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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