hackney cab

A man, seeing her distress from a window, helped the inexperienced Princess find a hackney cab, in which she was conveyed to her mother's house.

She preferred to walk or to take a hackney cab.

It was late enough so that only the occasional carriage or hackney cab passed by.

This usage stems from the hackney cabs or coaches that could be provided by a livery stable.

I gazed down at hackney cabs, joggers, treetops, the works, all framed by classic New York buildings.

There have been different makes and types of hackney cab through the years, including:

He would have run if he could, but entered the hackney cab he'd left waiting at the end of the lane and was driven decorously away.

The Peugeot E7 is a purpose built hackney cab.

She'd never been in a hackney cab.

The act of requesting a hackney cab to stop is also termed 'hailing'.