Noun

1. One who works hard at boring tasks
2. A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
3. A mediocre and disdained writer
4. A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
5. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
6. An old or over-worked horse
7. A horse kept for hire
8. A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

Verb

1. Cut with a hacking tool
2. Be able to manage or manage successfully
3. Cut away
4. Kick on the arms
5. Kick on the shins
6. Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
7. Significantly cut up a manuscript
8. Cough spasmodically