hackney
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Uber is opening up its ride-hailing app to black-cab drivers in the new year, in what it has dubbed a "partnership" with hackney carriage drivers.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Someone showing a miniature pinscher wants to showcase the high-stepping hackney gait that is a hallmark of the breed.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
I live in London, where there is a centuries-old licensed hackney carriage trade.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
After the first official licensing of hackney carriage drivers in 1838 and the formalisation, decades later, of “the Knowledge”, London’s black cab drivers ruled the roads more or less unchallenged.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2016
He had some dreadful troubles trying to borrow horses from people, and finally ended up on a groom’s hackney, can tering after Galahad as fast as it could go.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He had used 64 English hackneys, posted along the route two weeks before the run.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polo ponies, saddle horses, hunters, pony tandems, draft horses, tandems, hackneys, artillery horses strapped to caissons, police mounts, jumpers, saddle tandems, road hacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not improbable that the person who has just quitted it, had never, till he was a corpse, got higher than a single-horse Chay—yet no fewer than half-a-dozen hackneys must be hired for his dust.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
As I remember them, the old Gordon hackneys move as deliberately as old Gordon himself—that is, if horse flesh can move as slowly as human flesh.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
