Talk:Hackney

RFV
Sole adjective sense: Available for public hire. Is it used in this capitalization in this sense? Is it used in this sense for any collocation other that hackney cab/Hackney cab? DCDuring TALK 20:49, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Well there are thousands of uses for "Hackney carriage" (including in legislation) and "Hackney coach"/"Hackney-coach". bgc also shows uses for "Hackney car" (most are where "Hackney carriage" is hyphenated, but there are some that are genuine), "Hackney chair", "Hackney sedan-chair"/"Hackney sedan chair", "Hackney boat" (most of the hits are from a single source though) and "Hackney cabriolet".
 * A "Hackney horse" is a horse that is available to be hired, but it may or may nor be a specific type of horse as well - there are various "Hackney Horse" societies around the world.
 * There also exists Hackney-man:, which appears to mean "a person who hires out horses", which isn't quite the same meaning.
 * "Hackney cart" gets hits too, although I'm unsure whether this is a cart available for hire, or a specific type or make of cart.
 * Pretty much all combinations of capitalisation and hyphenation seem to exist for all the terms. I've not found any (relevant) bgc hits for the following collocations: truck, lorry, barge, ship, tug, van, skiff, coracle, locomotive, engine, bicycle, motorbike, bike, sidecar, or wagon. I've not looked on ggc or for any other collocators. Thryduulf (talk) 14:29, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * OK. I doubt that this can be shown to be a true adjective: *"My car becomes Hackney/hackney every Monday for five days." See English adjectives.
 * How would we word this as a noun used only attributively in compounds? Is there also a sense (or senses) for it as head of compounds that is distinct from the existing senses at Hackney and hackney? Can help simplify? If this were used in US English I would try to do it myself. DCDuring TALK  16:51, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Adjective RFV-failed. Noun added. Note that hackney remains... - -sche (discuss) 03:34, 7 August 2011 (UTC)