simple past tense and past participle of hackney

(law) A writ ordering that a person be brought before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal.

(informal, law) To apply the legal principle of habeas corpus to an individual or situation.

(telecommunications) A person who attempts to gain unauthorized access, esp. remotely, to a computer system or network (= computer hacker), or (in earliest use) a telephone network. Later also: a person who gains unauthorized access to another's telephone communications or data; = phone hacker.

An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp. / (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.

To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated. / (psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.

Equipment; qualification. / An act of habilitating.

(uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. / (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.

(historical) A hackney carriage, a carriage pulled by a hackney horse, available for public hire. / (currently) A motorised vehicle available for public hire; a black cab.