hackney coachmann.
/ˈhaknɪ ˌkəʊtʃmən/, U.S. /ˈhækni ˌkoʊtʃmən/ Now historical.
The driver of a hackney coach.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by vehicles plying for hire > [noun] > driving or hiring of cabs > driver of hired cab > of hackney-coach or cab
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1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case i. sig. B4v Let none of these come at her on your life,..Nor a Dancer by any meanes.., Nor a Hackney Coachman, if he can speake French.
a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) v. i. 57 My master kisses, as I've heard a hackney-coachman Chear up his mare; chap, chap.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. viii. 77 Chiefly,..Design'd against common Carriers, Waggoners, Hackney Coachmen, and Watermen.
1770 B. Fothergill Diary 16 Feb. in J. J. Abraham Lettsom (1933) vi. 135 We was stopped by a quarrell of some hackney coachmen.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 9 Mr. Bonney bustled up..and knocked a hackney-coachmen's knock on the table with a little hammer.
1891 Boston Sunday Globe 30 Aug. 7/1 The countess..often left her behind at the Grand Hotel, where the hackney coachman..was awaiting her.
1908 G. Unwin Gilds & Companies London xviii. 332 Next year, however, the hackney-coachmen..made a successful counter-move.
1965 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 12 Sept. w13/1 A hackney coachman conceived the idea of reviving ancient horse racing.
2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Features section) 29 Henry Fielding..once said that he had to choose between being a hack writer and a hackney coachman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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