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Definition of hackney: 1. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
2. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
3. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
4. A horse or pony kept for hire.
5. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
6. To carry in a hackney coach.
7. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.

Synonyms:

hackney carriage, hackney coach

horse (part of speech: noun)

thoroughbred, Albino, Percheron, mustang, jennet, quarter horse, horse, Shire, Spanish horse, Arabian, Shetland pony, Welsh pony, Suffolk, Belgian, Appaloosa, Turk, palomino, Morgan, bronco, Lippizaner, Galloway, Clydesdale

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