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gharry
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Word definitions for gharry in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A wheeled cart or carriage (usually horsedrawn). 2 South African military slang: a jeep or small truck for conveying troops.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gharry or gharri is a horse-drawn cab used especially in India . A palkee gharry is shaped somewhat like a palanquin . A gharry driver is a gharry-wallah.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gharry \Ghar"ry\, n. [Hind. g[=a]?i.] Any wheeled cart or carriage. [India]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a horse-drawn carriage in India
Usage examples of gharry.
Hawkes went in search of a native gharry but it was a long time before he found one.
Then Hawkes arrived at the intersection, seated on the back seat of the gharry he had hired.
Joe turned toward the wooden stair-head, not wishing to keep Hawkes and the hired gharry waiting.
He pondered that a long time as the comfortless gharry bounced and rumbled toward the outskirts of the city.
He had walked about a mile before the gharry overtook him--one horse and a loose shoe--click-clack--click-clack.
The constable seemed interested in the rear end of the gharry and asked incomprehensible questions.
He left the gharry standing there and followed the wall toward the corner, glancing back to make sure that the driver had understood and was waiting.
The driver of the gharry lost his head and his seat simultaneously, the vehicle overturned and pinned the unfortunate occupant underneath, and the escort surrendered hurriedly several times over.
This last was perhaps as well, for the attackers were so weak with laughter at the sight of a very dignified Turkish general in full regalia crawling from under the gharry that they were in no condition to put up a serious fight.
Tongas cut into her nerves, the stuffy gharry made her head ache, and the springless phaetons which abound in the East she avoided as the plague.
A good many roads have been made in the State, and the Chinese are building buggies, gharries, and wagons, and many of the richer ones own them and import Sumatra ponies to draw them.
Taipeng is a thriving, increasing place, of over six thousand inhabitants, solely Chinese, with the exception of a small Kling population, which keeps small shops, lends money, drives gharries and bullock-carts, and washes clothes.
In a shed there were three gharries, and behind the house several small houses for slaves and others.
They passed out of Carnac Road into Mahatma Ghandi Road, and found a gharry at the curb.
It issued from the rumps of the horses between the shafts of the city's many tongas, ikkas and gharries.