Hackneys [noun]
Definition of Hackneys:
car for hire
Opposite/Antonyms of Hackneys:
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Sentence/Example of Hackneys:
Edward sent him to London, 'fettered on a hackney,' to undergo the same barbarous death as his heroic brother.
The old days of comfortable hackney-carriages in hundreds about the Manila streets, at 50 cents Mex.
The word in former times meant merely a hackney, or horse adapted for the road.
So my wife and I took leave of my Ladies, and home by a hackney-coach, the easiest that ever I met with, and so to bed.
He hailed a hackney cab on its way to a neighboring stand, and jumped into it with an air of affected indifference.
We took her to Birch's; we provided her with a hackney-coach and every lucksury, and carried her home to Islington.
And myself being in a hackney and full of people, was ashamed to be seen by the world, many of them knowing me.
The whole street was astonished with the noise of the wheels and the rattling of the iron steps of the hackney-coaches.
During his second winter in Edinburgh, Burns met with a hackney coach accident which kept him to the house for six weeks.
By the powerful old gentleman's aid, even a hackney-coach gets over half a mile of ground.