hackney

«hackney» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: taxi, cab — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

taxi, cab

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

a horse-drawn carriage for hire, a cab. tree →

how it differs from today

Today the word is rare and mostly appears in 'hackney-coach' or as a place name; we say taxi or cab.

examples

• Two minutes later, he was sitting in a hackney-coach and driving to Frederickshafen. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• Never had his age, with which, however, he was always grumbling, seemed so miserable as on this evening. “I'll take a hackney-coach!” thought he. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• “By your leave!” said the Councillor to the Hostess, who came bustling towards him. “I've felt so queer all of a sudden; would you have the goodness to send for a hackney-coach to take me to Christianshafen?” (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

hackney

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hackney» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.