noun. A horse of a breed developed in England, having a gait characterized by pronounced flexion of the knee.

noun. A trotting horse suited for routine riding or driving; a hack.

noun. A coach or carriage for hire.

transitive verb. To cause to become banal and trite through overuse.

transitive verb. To hire out; let.

adjective. Banal; trite.

adjective. Having been hired.

To wear, weary, or exhaust by frequent or excessive use, as a horse; hence, to render worn, trite, stale, etc., as by repetition.

To ride or drive as a hackney.

noun. Specifically, a breed of horses which combines thoroughbred blood with that of the English shire horse or cart-horse and also that of the native Irish horse.

noun. A horse kept for riding or driving; a pad; a nag.

noun. A horse kept for hire; a horse much used; a hack.

noun. A coach or other carriage kept for hire. Also called hackney-coach.

noun. A person accustomed to drudgery; a person ready to be hired for any drudgery or dirty work; a hireling.

noun. A prostitute.

noun. A payment in hire or as in hire.

Let out, employed, or done for hire; drudging; mercenary.

adjective. Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean

noun. A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.

noun. A horse or pony kept for hire.

noun. A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

noun. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

transitive verb. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace.

transitive verb. To carry in a hackney coach.

noun. An ordinary horse.

noun. A carriage for hire or a cab.

noun. A horse used to ride or drive.

noun. A breed of English horse.

adjective. Offered for hire.

verb. To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.

verb. To use as a hackney.

noun. a compact breed of harness horse

noun. a carriage for hire

"When those involved were expelled after a huge public row over all sorts of things to do with how the party in hackney was run (at the time the press described the expellees as the good guys - they weren't) then it became the party they joined (ie the Lib Dems) who took it up."

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