hackney vs taxi

hackney

noun
  • A carriage for hire or a cab. 

  • A horse used to ride or drive. 

  • A breed of English horse. 

verb
  • To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use. 

  • To use as a hackney. 

  • To carry in a hackney coach. 

adj
  • Much used; trite; mean. 

  • Offered for hire. 

taxi

noun
  • A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public, driven by a taxi driver. 

  • A share taxi. 

  • The movement of an aircraft across an airport's surface under its own power; a phase of aircraft operation involving this movement. 

verb
  • To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power. 

  • To travel by taxicab. 

How often have the words hackney and taxi occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )