Meaning of hackney writer | Babel Free

Definitions

A writer for hire.

obsolete

Examples

“[…] he learned, that Justice Gobble, whose father was a tailor, had for some time served as a journeyman hosier in London, where he had picked up some law terms, by conversing with hackney writers and attorneys’ clerks of the lowest order; […]”

“[…] and at this his first entrance on the world he found, as he himself said, no choice but to be a hackney writer or a hackney coachman.”

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