| 单词 | hackney-boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmashackney-boat C4. attributive. Designating a vehicle kept for hire (see sense A. 4), as hackney-boat, hackney cart, hackney vehicle, etc.See also hackney cab n., hackney carriage n., hackney chair n., hackney chariot n. at Compounds 5, hackney coach n. ΚΠ 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 130. ¶4 The..Hackney-boat, which carries Passengers from Leiden to Amsterdam. 1791 J. Payne Universal Geogr. I. 185/2 The hackrees, or hackney vehicles for the hire of the public, are drawn by oxen. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 382 Expecting to have met with a hackney rattler, but not one was to be found upon the stand. 1893 H. S. Edwards Old & New Paris I. vi. 30/2 Hitherto all the hackney vehicles of Paris had been of one pattern. ?1906 Coll. Ordinances Council of Govt. (Mauritius) 1905 144 The licensing and control of the drivers and conductors of..hackney-carts or any other vehicles intended to be let to or to carry the public. 2008 M. Massey Mad Kestrel xi. 115 A hackney boat was rowing out to her. < as lemmas |
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