Crossword-Solution: HACKNEY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hackney | n. | A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. |
| Hackney | n. | A horse or pony kept for hire. |
| Hackney | n. | A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach. |
| Hackney | n. | A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute. |
| Hackney | a. | Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors. |
| Hackney | v. t. | To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. |
| Hackney | v. t. | To carry in a hackney coach. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “HACKNEY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| London taxi | 1 answer |
| Carriage kept for hire. | 1 answer |
| Carriage for hire | 1 answer |
| Cab or horse | 1 answer |
| A horse-drawn vehicle kept for hire | 1 answer |
| Compact harness horse | 1 answer |
| Hired carriage | 1 answer |
| Horse-drawn taxi | 1 answer |
| make common | 2 answers |
| Vehicle for hire | 3 answers |
| Coach for hire. | 3 answers |
| HIRED vehicle | 8 answers |
| carriage one horse | 10 answers |
| carriage-horse | 10 answers |
| CARRIAGE HORSE SOUND | 10 answers |
| BEFORE THE ORES CART | 10 answers |
| A COMPACT BREED OF HARNESS HORSE | 11 answers |
| Carriage horse | 11 answers |
| LONDON borough | 14 answers |
| CAB ___ | 20 answers |
| horse breed | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HACKNEY (5)
But Nicholas slowly mounted his hackney and led Ralph's war-horse with him home again to King Peter's House.
The two gentlemen then returned, languidly, to their hotel, and sent for a hackney coach, and in this commodious vehicle they rolled comfortably downtown.
This, indeed, I had in the main only from the relation of others, for I seldom walked into the fields, except towards Bethnal Green and Hackney, or as hereafter.
And yet these are the Heralds and Pursuivants of Scotland, who are about to proclaim a new law of the United Kingdom before two-score boys, and thieves, and hackney-coachmen.
For long he durst not keep a carriage; that, in his circumstances would have been improper; but a time comes, with the growth of his fortune, when the impropriety has shifted to the other side, and he is “ashamed to be seen in a hackney.” Pepys talked about being “a Quaker or some very melancholy thing;” for my part, I can imagine nothing so melancholy, because nothing half so silly, as to be concerned about such problems.
Quotes with HACKNEY (3)
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1957–2016).