Crossword clues for rickshaw
rickshaw
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1887, shortened form of jinrikisha, popularized by Kipling, from Japanese jin "a man" + riki "power" + sha "carriage."
Wiktionary
n. A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person vb. to move someone by means of a rickshaw (noun sense)
WordNet
n. a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person [syn: jinrikisha, ricksha]
Wikipedia
Rickshaw began as a two or three-wheeled passenger cart, called a pulled rickshaw, generally pulled by one man with one passenger. The first known use of the term was in 1887. Over time, cycle rickshaws (also known as pedicabs), auto rickshaws, and electric rickshaws were invented.
Pulled rickshaws created a popular form of transportation, and a source of employment for male laborers, within Asian cities in the 19th century. Their appearance was related to newly acquired knowledge of ball-bearing systems. Their popularity declined as cars, trains and other forms of transportation became widely available.
Auto rickshaws are becoming more popular in some cities in the 21st century as an alternative to taxis because of their low cost.
A rickshaw is a pedestrian-powered vehicle for carrying one or two passengers.
Rickshaw may also refer to:
Usage examples of "rickshaw".
God only knew where, rickshaws, and pedicabs did their best to take up the slack.
Harvey, surrounded by a bunch of kids who all wanted his autograph, started toting the rickshaw there, with me and Lo Chung and a few hundred betters tagging along behind.
Europe and on the advantages of the highly maneuverable, virtually noiseless, and, it goes without saying, exhaust-free bicycle rickshaw for short-to-medium distances in cities, then spoke more generally on the revitalization of Europe by new blood from Asia, and finally, if only ironically, he invoked the capitalist concept of untapped markets.
Practically all of the rickshaws in Shanking now had rifle-barrels for axles.
Up Main Street, swept speckless for dancing, creaked a museum carriage, pulled like a rickshaw by half the eighth grade boys.
Outside, along the gutter, were the trishaws, the evolution of the rickshaw, a bicycle and a sidecar with the coolie pedalling.
After traveling in the East for months, riding in underpowered taxis, cyclos, and even rickshaws, an American muscle car feels exactly right.
Professor Sabian looked doubtfully at the sign of the black bird, as the rickshaw slowed and stopped.
Buses, taxis, cows, bullock-carts, bicycles, water buffalo, motorbikes, trucks, and motorized rickshaws contended for space on the overtaxed highway, with right-of-way going to the biggest vehicles and the loudest horns.
Miss Arrol argues vociferously outside with the two men and the rickshaw-boys for a minute or so, then turns as another rickshaw comes squeaking out of the mist behind her.
They packed him onto the rickshaw in place of his mother, who walked, and Crenelle took up the job of hauling.
Clay tried to get a clear look at India outside, but all he could see in the starkly shadowed street were the crisscrossings of three-wheeled taxis and human-drawn rickshaws.
Adroit as a footballer dodging through defensemen toward the goal, Anielewicz steered his bicycle past pushcarts, rickshaws, hordes of other bicycles, and swarms of men and women afoot.
A lunch delivery boy from Delhi who had been thrown off his motorcycle rickshaw in a collision with a lorry.
The Rolls stopped suddenly as a mass of pedestrians dodged through the tightly packed lines of cars and double-decker buses and taxis and trucks and carts and lorries and bicycles and handcarts and some rickshaws.