noun. A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.

noun. A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.

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noun. One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.

noun. A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.

noun. A carriage or hackney for hire.

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noun. A taxicab.

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intransitive verb. To let out (a horse) for hire.

intransitive verb. To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.

intransitive verb. To drive a taxicab for a living.

intransitive verb. To work for hire as a writer.

intransitive verb. To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.

adjective. By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing.

adjective. Hackneyed; banal.

phrasal verb. To produce (written material, for example), especially hastily or routinely.

intransitive verb. To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows.

intransitive verb. To break up the surface of (soil).

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intransitive verb. To alter (a computer program).

intransitive verb. To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization.

intransitive verb. To cut or mutilate as if by hacking.

intransitive verb. To cope with successfully; manage.

intransitive verb. To chop or cut something by hacking.

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intransitive verb. To write or refine computer programs skillfully.

intransitive verb. To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network.

intransitive verb. To cough roughly or harshly.

noun. A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.

noun. A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.

noun. A blow made by hacking.

noun. A rough, dry cough.

noun. A grated frame. , ,

noun. In falconry, partial liberty. See the extract.

noun. A haw; a hedge.

To place (bricks) in rows to dry before burning.

To make irregular cuts in or upon; mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; cut or notch at random.

To dress off the more prominent parts of (stone) with a hack-hammer.

To chap; frost-bite, as the hands.

To kick, as one player another in foot-ball; bruise by kicking.

To break up, as clods of earth after plowing.

To chop; cut: as, to keep hacking away at a log.

To hop on one leg.

To toil; work laboriously; strive to attain something.

To stammer; stutter. Also hacker.

To emit short sharp sounds in coughing; cough slightly and frequently; be affected by a short, broken, dry cough. Compare hawk.

To chatter with cold.

noun. A cut; a notch.

noun. A cut in a tree to indicate a particular spot, or a series of cuts made in a number of trees as a guide through woods; a blazed line.