hackney vs wooden mare

hackney

noun
  • A breed of English horse. 

  • A carriage for hire or a cab. 

  • A horse used to ride or drive. 

adj
  • Much used; trite; mean. 

  • Offered for hire. 

verb
  • To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use. 

  • To use as a hackney. 

  • To carry in a hackney coach. 

wooden mare

noun
  • Synonym of wooden horse. 

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