1. (n.) A horse for routine work, or (v.) to make stale by repetition\.

2. (n.) A horse or pony kept for hire.

3. (n.) A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

4. (n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

5. (a.) Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.

6. (v. t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.

7. (v. t.) To carry in a hackney coach.

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