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… of Cant notes: 'Hacks or Hackneys, hirelings. Hackney-whores, Common Prostitutes. Hackney-Horses, to be let to any body. Hackney-Scriblers, Poor Hirelings Mercenary Writers' (B.E., A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the …
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