jarvey

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   British and Irish, historical: the driver of a hackney coach or jaunting car

   The jarvey waited beside his carriage while the passengers collected their luggage.

2. 2
   noun

   historical: a hackney coach or jaunting car available for hire

   They hired a jarvey to carry them across the city before dawn.

An Irish and British English use of Jarvey, a familiar form or variant of the personal name Jarvis. By the late eighteenth century it denoted a hired-carriage driver and, less often, the vehicle itself. The spelling jarvie is also recorded.

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