Definitions for Hackney

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Hackney hack·ney

Spelling: [hak-nee]

IPA: /ˈhæk ni/

Hackney is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in Hackney (acehkny).

Definitions for Hackney

noun

1. Also called hackney coach. a carriage or coach for hire; cab.
2. a trotting horse used for drawing a light carriage or the like.
3. a horse used for ordinary riding or driving.
4. (initial capital letter) one of an English breed of horses having a high-stepping gait.
5. a borough of Greater London, England.

adjective

1. let out, employed, or done for hire.

verb (used with object)

1. to make trite, common, or stale by frequent use.
2. to use as a hackney.

Origin of Hackney

1300-50; Middle English hakeney, special use of placename Hackney, Middlesex, England

Examples for Hackney

Half the hackney coachmen, he says, were in league with thieves.

Commuters at hackney Wick greeted by fond tribute to the late comedienne.

Not one, save the hackney carman, who evidently did not know him.

“We are involved in a super PAC trying to help [Republican Senate contender] Dan Sullivan beat Mark Begich,” says hackney.

It was late in the night when we turned homewards in a hackney carriage.

Then Sir Percivale mounted upon that hackney, and rode as fast as he might.

A rather wonderful tribute to Joan Rivers greeted commuters at hackney Wick Overground station in London this morning.

Situated in hipster hackney, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History opens to the public on Wednesday.

I hailed the first hackney carriage I met and drove to my rooms.

Like hackney, Taylor Bickford has mostly worked to get Republicans elected.