hackney

hackney has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
• n.. A horse or pony kept for hire.
• n.. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
• n.. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
• a.. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To carry in a hackney coach.
• n.. a compact breed of harness horse
• n.. a carriage for hire