![]() "hackney" referred to "a horse of middle size and quality, used for ordinary riding, as distinguished from a war-horse, a hunter, or a draught-horse". ![]() In the 1200's, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word The word "hackney" is derived from the Latin "equus" (meaning horse) via the Old French "haquenee". Their own way until the late 1500's, when hackney coaches and sedan chairs began to compete with them. The earliest London "cab" drivers were the Thames watermen who rowed people up and down the river. Translation) which brought Julius Caesar to the banks of the Rubicon in 49 B.C., and it may well be that proto-cabbies were plying their trade at the dawn of urban history. ![]() According to Plutarch it was a cab (or "hired carriage" in John Dryden's The taxicab is the modern-day representative of a long tradition stretching back over many centuries. ![]()
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