单词 | hackney chairman |
释义 | hackney chairmann. Now historical. A person whose occupation is to carry or pull a hackney chair (hackney chair n.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person > bearer of (sedan) chair chairman1682 hackney chairman1710 jampanee1859 sedanier1871 1710 Act Licensing Hackney-coaches (9 Anne, c. 23) §8 If any Hackney Coachman or Chairman shall..exact more for his Hire than the several Rates hereby limited. 1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 105 Calling odd man! as the hackney chairmen do when they want a partner. 1803 H. B. Hayes Let. 6 May in F. M. Bladen Hist. Rec. New S. Wales (1897) V. 105 In figure he resembles a Hackney chairman, in behaviour a clown. 1841 C. Knight London I. 30 If they were hackney-chairmen they asserted their power of the strong arm. 1903 G. L. Apperson Bygone London Life v. 154 The hackney chairmen seem to have been a somewhat rowdy class of men. 1996 N. K. Robinson Edmund Burke iii. 72 Fox took the second seat after Samuel Hood, to the excitement of his devoted hackney chairmen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1710 |
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