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

Usage examples:

• A hackney coach was procured, into which the hapless victim of her own follies was carried. - "Marriage", Susan Edmonstone Ferrier.
• Until within quite recent date, for instance, there was no such thing as a stand for hackney carriages here; now it has become the fashion to take drives in fine weather. - "Holidays in Eastern France", Matilda Betham-Edwards.
• She would not give me time to cry, but got into a hackney coach and rode off to where we were to meet Harry. - "Mr. Hogarth's Will", Catherine Helen Spence.