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hackney carriage

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Noun1.hackney carriagehackney carriage - a carriage for hire                  
hackney, hackney coach
carriage, equipage, rig - a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses
four-wheeler - a hackney carriage with four wheels
remise - an expensive or high-class hackney
Translations
hackney carriage
n (horse-drawn) → (Pferde)droschke f; (form: = taxi) → (Kraft)droschke f (form)
hackney carriage [ˈhæknɪˌkærɪdʒ] n (frm) → autopubblica
hackney carriage [ˈhæknɪˌkærɪdʒ] n (frm) → autopubblica


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He had heard of the case of an orphan muffin boy, who, having been run over by a hackney carriage, had been removed to the hospital, had undergone the amputation of his leg below the knee, and was now actually pursuing his occupation on crutches.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
Crawling behind an infirm horse, a metropolitan hackney carriage drew up on wobbly wheels and with a maimed driver on the box.
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