hackery

A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.

Noun India

  1. A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
    • Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. - 1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019:
  2. A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.

Origin

Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”).

Forms

hackeries

Synonyms

chakra

Hypernyms

oxcart

Noun derogatory, slang

  1. Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
  2. The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
    • All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java. - 2012, Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook, page 57:

Origin

From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”).