hackney
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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
Council chiefs in all 10 boroughs have signed up to minimum standards for private hire and hackney carriage drivers in the licensing process.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
I live in London, where there is a centuries-old licensed hackney carriage trade.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
After a brief tussle with sedan chairs, horse-drawn hackney carriages ruled the streets for the best part of 300 years.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2016
“Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption! And, besides, no traces of them were to be found on the Barnet road.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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
He had used 64 English hackneys, posted along the route two weeks before the run.
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 Wilson, John
He established a wide reputation as a breeder of shorthorns, Southdown, and Oxford Down sheep, hackneys and cart horses.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
