A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.

To play hackeysack.

Repeated too often. / (dated) Let out for hire.

simple past tense and past participle of hackney

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.

(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.

A London borough in Greater London, England, where once upon a time many horses were pastured. / A town in eastern London, England, within this borough (OS grid ref TQ3584).

(archaic) An ordinary horse. / A carriage for hire or a cab. / A horse used to ride or drive. / A breed of English horse. / (archaic) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

Offered for hire. / (figuratively) Much used; trite; mean.