单词 | hackney carriage |
释义 | hackney carriagen. Originally: a vehicle, esp. a horse-drawn carriage, available for public hire. In later use: a motor vehicle licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare. Cf. hackney cab n., hackney coach n. Now chiefly historical or in legal contexts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage hackney coach1618 hell-cart1623 hackney1664 hack1692 fiacre1699 hackney carriage1735 dilly1805 street coach1818 jarvey1819 cab1822 hackney cab1832 gurney1884 cabriolet1907 1735 Bayle's Gen. Dict. Hist. & Crit. (new ed.) II. 56 Antonius and Cassius come to him [sc. Cæsar]..for shelter in an hackney carriage. 1796 in Acts & Laws Commonw. Massachusetts (1896) 62 The said Selectmen are hereby authorized to grant licences for such number of Hackney Coaches & Carriages..as they shall judge proper. 1822 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1818 11 249/1 Scarcely a private or hackney carriage was to be seen that was not proceeding westward to the funeral. 1847 Act 10 & 11 Victoria c. 89 §38 Every wheeled Carriage..used in standing or plying for Hire in any Street..and every Carriage standing upon any Street, public or private..having thereon any numbered Plate required by this..Act..shall be deemed to be a Hackney Carriage. 1898 Amer. Architect & Building News 29 Oct. 34/2 Although a company exists for maintaining horseless hackney carriages in London..the number of them is trifling. 1929 Manch. Guardian 15 May 13/3 While driving his wife about..in his hackney carriage, Frederick James Knott..was stopped by Police Sergeant Latham. 1969 Guardian 20 Dec. 4/1 It would be an offence to..advertise private hire cars in a way that might mislead the public into thinking they were hackney carriages. 2012 Reforming Law Taxi & Private Hire Services (Law Comm.) 10.65 Where duly licensed hackney carriages operated as private hire vehicles in another area they were entirely outside the licensing regime. 2015 Commerc. Motor 23 July 31 His great grandfather..was a Londoner and a coachbuilder by trade, building horse-drawn hackney carriages. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1792 Jrnls. House of Lords 6 Index sig. 6 N2/1 Dissentient on passing Hackney Carriage Bill. 1799 W. Ball Statutes at Large Parl. Irel. VIII. App. at Forgery, ¶6 Of hackney carriage licenses, &c. 1804 W. Ball Index to Acts passed Irel. 39th & 40th Years George III at Revenue, ¶191 Nor as a hack, or as kept for hire, unless licensed under Dublin hackney carriage laws. 1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 28 June 409/2 The account received from the present officials of the hackney-carriage registrary. 1863 S. M. Peto Taxation v. 168 If the hackney-carriage trade of London were relieved of the excise duty.., the trade would get into better hands. 1897 Indian Engin. 24 Apr. 328/1 Complaints are rife regarding the disgraceful condition of the hackney carriage stand in Wellesley Place, Calcutta. 1907 Brit. Trade Jrnl. Feb. 64/1 £20,000 will be sufficient to start a good hackney carriage company. 1952 Billboard 6 Sept. 84/1 Four persons were injured and a valuable Hackney carriage horse had to be destroyed. 1989 Taxi Globe 15 Nov. 21/1 It now appears that the majority of licensing authorities have completely abdicated their responsibility to enforce the hackney carriage laws. 2010 J. Cooper et al. Taxi! viii. 147 A Hackney Carriage Licence for up to eight seats allows the operator to pick up a passenger from a taxi rank or the street. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1735 |
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