hackney
hak nee
- n a carriage for hire
- n a compact breed of harness horse
- Purchased last spring by Miss Jean Browne Scott, of Manhattan, he lately beat Charm, famed hackney, at the Olympia show in England, thus becoming the champion English hackney .
- He had neither the training nor the heart for the prancing and posturing of a high-stepping hackney.
- With characteristic naivet he dispatched a follower to hire his army transportsplain hackney cabs, which never arrived.