1582. Hakluyt, Voyages, i., 400 There they use to put out their women to hire as we do here hakney horses.
1594. Shakspeare, Love's Labour Lost, iii., 1. The hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love perhaps a hackney.
1594. Nashe, Unf. Traveller, 101 (Chiswick Press, 1890). Out whore, strumpet, sixpenny hackster, away with her to prison!
1672. Ray, Proverbs. Hackney mistress, hackney maid.
1678. Butler, Hudibras, pt. iii., c. 1. That is no more than every lover Does from his hackney-lady suffer.
1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. Hacks, or Hackneys, Hirelings. Ibid, Hackney Horses. Ibid., Hackney Scribblers. Ibid., Hackney Whores, Common Prostitutes.
1738. Pope, Ep. to Sat. Shall each spurgall'd hackney of the day, Or each new pension'd sycophant, pretend To break my windows?
1754. Fielding, Jonathan Wild, iv., 14. With wonderful alacrity he had ended almost in an instant, and conveyed himself into a place of safety in a hackney-coach.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hackney-writer, one who writes for attornies or booksellers.
1803. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam. Hacks. Hack Preachers; the common exhibitioners at St. Mary's, employed in the service of defaulters, and absentees.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib. I first was hired to peg a hack.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, i., 7. A rattler is a rumbler, otherwise a Jarvy! Better known, perhaps, by the name of a hack.
1841. Leman Rede, Sixteen String Jack, ii., 3. I'll get a hack, be off in a crack.
Verb (colloquial, football).—To kick shins. Hacking = the practice of kicking shins at football.
1857. G. A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, ch. i. I saw, too, more than one player limp out of his path disconsolately, trying vainly to dissemble the pain of a vicious hack.
1869. Spencer, Study of Sociology, ch. viii. p. 186 (9th ed.). And thus, perhaps, the 'education of a gentleman' may rightly include giving and receiving hacking of the shins at foot-ball.
1872. The Echo, 3 Nov. Some of the modern foot ball players have the tips of their shoes tipped with iron, and others wear a kind of armour or iron plate under their knicker-bockers to avoid . . . what is called hacking.
Hackle, subs. (common).—Pluck;
spirit; bottom (q.v.).
To show hackle = to show
fight. [Hackle = a long shining
feather on a cock's neck.] Fr.,
avoir du foie; n'avoir pas le
flubart, or avoir du poil au ciel.
Hackslaver, verb. (old).—To
stammer; to splutter; to hesitate
in speech.
Hackum (or Captain Hackum, or
Hackster), subs. (old).—A
bully; a bravo. For synonyms,
see Furioso.
1657. Lady Alimony, 1, 3 (Dodsley, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, xiv., p. 282). Vowing, like a desperate haxter that he has express command to seize upon all our properties,
1690. B. E., Cant. Crew, s.v. Hackam, Fighting Fellow.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hackum, Captain Hackum, a bravo, a slasher.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum. Hackum, a bravado, a slasher, 'Capt. Hackum,' a fellow who slashes with a bowie-knife.
Had.—See Have.
Haddock, subs. (common).—1. A
purse. Haddock of Beans =
a purse of money. [Haddock =
cod: O. Sw., Rudde; Ic., Koddi
= a small bag. Cf., Codpiece.]
For synonyms, see Poge.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes. Melrusio, the fish we call a hadock, or a cod. Ibid. Metter la faua nel bacello, to put the beane into the cod.
1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, bk. III., ch. xiii. 'What's here?' cried he, searching the attorney's pockets . . . 'a haddock, stuffed with nothing, I'm thinking.'
