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hackney-man|ˈhæknɪmæn|
Forms: see hackney n.
[f. hackney n. + man.]
A man who keeps hackney horses or hackney-carriages for hire; † a servant who attends to a hackney.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 161 Hikke þe hakeney mon and hogge þe neldere. 1467Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 398 Paid to the hakneyman in party of payment of the horse that my mastyr hered to ryde to Stoke. 1599Soliman & Perseda i. in Hazl. Dodsley V. 281 A hackney-man Should have ten shillings for horsing a gentle-woman. 1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II §56 (1876) 43 In the same stable shalbe an hackneyman, who shal keepe the hakene of the house. 1628Earle Microcosm., Carrier (Arb.) 36 A carryer is his own Hackneyman; for hee lets himselfe out to trauell as well as his horses. 1797Wolcott (P. Pindar) Out at Last Wks. 1812 III. 500 The Hackneymen..Shall cry ‘My money for my Chaise’. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 190 The straggling yard of a hackneyman. |