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Wiktionary
n. (context India English) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.
Wikipedia
EKKA can be one of the following:
- The ICAO-code for Karup Airport.
- National and Social Liberation (Ethniki Kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis), the Greek Resistance movement founded by Colonel Dimitrios Psarros.
- Ekka may be the annual show of Queensland, Australia. See Ekka.
- National and Social Liberation (Greek: Εθνική και Κοινωνική Απελευθέρωσις, Ethniki kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis, also known by its initials EKKA), a Greek resistance group during World War II
- An ekka is a one-horse carriage used in India.
- EKKA (disambiguation)
An ekka (sometimes spelt hecca or ecka) is a one-horse carriage used in northern India. Ekkas (the word is derived from Hindi ek for "one") were something like ' traps' (of 'a pony and trap'), and were commonly used as cabs, or private hire vehicles in 19th century India. They find frequent mention in colonial literature of the period.It is also said that some kind of ekka's were used by people of Indus Valley Civilisation (without the spoked wheel). Ekkas were typically drawn by a single horse, pony, mule (and sometimes bullock) and had a pair of large wooden wheels (and traditionally, a wooden axle) and the carriage had a flat floor with a canopy providing shade to the passenger(s) and the driver. Traditionally, they lacked springs and seats, with the passengers having to sit on their haunches and withstand the jolts transmitted by the wheels. John Lockwood Kipling, artist and father of Rudyard Kipling, described the ekka as a "tea-tray on wheels" with the passengers sitting like "compressed capital N's". Bells were attached to the cart so as to warn people to stay out of the way of the cart. The space below the carriage and between the wheels was available for baggage. Wider versions with two bullocks have also been referred to as ekkas although larger two horse carriages with better seating are known as tongas.
Usage examples of "ekka".
There was a mattress full length of the ekka, and a cover stretched over it on iron hoops.
The ekka followed, the pony loping to keep up, and if Jannath did not grow seasick from the pitching it must have been because he had been a sailor in a recent incarnation.
The priest in the ekka made nothing of the fact that Ommony did not look round or wait to see who followed.
The ekka wheels stuck between stones in a ford, and Ommony waited while driver and priest got down knee-deep in the muddy stream to lift the wheel clear.
Jannath had dispensed with the ekka now, lest the driver share his information, and was coming forward on foot.
Then he mounted his horse and set out to find the ekka and its driver--nearly lost both, for the dun believed Diana was a wolf and the driver agreed with her.
Once he made a jump for freedom, but Diana caught him, and Ommony threw him back into the ekka by the loincloth.
Room was discovered for the horses in a shed beside the granary, and the driver of the ekka was shut in there along with them.
They harnessed up the ekka, its driver backing the corn-fed dun between the shafts while Elsa held them up, and Ommony wrote a short note to Molyneux on a leaf of his memorandum-book.
Then with passengers inside, the ekka bumped down the brick steps, and the gate of the Home of Peace clanged shut behind them.
There was room to have fought, now the ekka was out of the way, but an impulse not to fight--an inner prompting to go forward with the whole affair.
I was so taken by the idea I let him go, and he jingled off in an ekka as pleased as Punch.
Presently a one-horsed, two-wheeled vehicle known as an ekka arrived with four more troopers, who joined the first party, straightening their tunics but not seeming to have anything to say.
The driver of the ekka left his sweating horse to peer, too, under the hood of the motor.
He leaned his cycle against the stone pillar to which the ekka horse was hitched and joined the others.