单词 | hackney chariot |
释义 | > as lemmashackney chariot hackney chariot n. a horse-drawn carriage, esp. one kept for hire (now historical and archaic). ΚΠ 1687 R. Crouch Hist. Nine Worthies 81 Upon an expedition he [sc. Caesar] would go fifty Leagues a day in a Hackney Chariot. 1764 tr. J. P. de Limbourg New Amusem. German Spa I. vii. 205 There are..three hackney chariots, or coaches, for those who chuse them. 1813–14 Act 54 Geo. III c. 147 (title) An Act..for authorizing the licensing of a limited Number of Hackney Chariots. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. vi. 86 I made the best of my way to Fleet-street, and there got a late hackney chariot. 1935 Spectator 15 Mar. 434/2 The book's racy background of London life—the taverns and the coffee shops and the hackney chariots. 1989 C. Palliser Quincunx iii. 405 We travelled back in another hackney-chariot. < as lemmas |
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