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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hackney/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hackney/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hackney/#x2)
- “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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hackney/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/hackney/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.