Hackney

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A horse of a breed developed in England, having a gait characterized by pronounced flexion of the knee.
  • n. A trotting horse suited for routine riding or driving; a hack.
  • n. A coach or carriage for hire.
  • v. To cause to become banal and trite through overuse.
  • v. To hire out; let.
  • adj. Banal; trite.
  • adj. Having been hired.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An ordinary horse.
  • n. A carriage for hire or a cab.
  • n. A horse used to ride or drive.
  • n. A breed of English horse.
  • adj. Offered for hire.
  • v. To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
  • v. To use as a hackney.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
  • n. A horse or pony kept for hire.
  • n. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
  • n. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
  • adj. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean
  • v. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace.
  • v. To carry in a hackney coach.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A horse kept for riding or driving; a pad; a nag.
  • n. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used; a hack.
  • n. A coach or other carriage kept for hire. Also called hackney-coach.
  • n. A person accustomed to drudgery; a person ready to be hired for any drudgery or dirty work; a hireling.
  • n. A prostitute.
  • n. A payment in hire or as in hire.
  • Let out, employed, or done for hire; drudging; mercenary.
  • To wear, weary, or exhaust by frequent or excessive use, as a horse; hence, to render worn, trite, stale, etc., as by repetition.
  • To ride or drive as a hackney.
  • n. Specifically, a breed of horses which combines thoroughbred blood with that of the English shire horse or cart-horse and also that of the native Irish horse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a compact breed of harness horse
  • n. a carriage for hire
  • Verb Form
    hackneyed    hackneying    hackneys   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    hackneyed    hackneying    hack   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nag    pony    hack    hireling    prostitute    trite    mean   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acne   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts