hackney coach

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noun

a four-wheeled carriage having six seats and drawn by two horses.

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Origin of hackney coach

First recorded in 1615–25

Words nearby hackney coach

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How to use hackney coach in a sentence

So my wife and I took leave of my Ladies, and home by a hackney-coach, the easiest that ever I met with, and so to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
We took her to Birch's; we provided her with a hackney-coach and every lucksury, and carried her home to Islington.
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush|William Makepeace Thackeray
During his second winter in Edinburgh, Burns met with a hackney coach accident which kept him to the house for six weeks.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol X|Various
By the powerful old gentleman's aid, even a hackney-coach gets over half a mile of ground.
The Pickwick Papers|Charles Dickens

They have been whipped by them, as no sober postillion would whip a hackney coach horse.
The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IV (of 12)|Various