Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A horse-drawn carriage, used primarily in Egypt and India, often as a cab.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native East Indian cart or carriage, in its typical form, drawn by oxen or ponies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India Any wheeled cart or carriage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A wheeled
cart orcarriage (usually horsedrawn). - noun South African military slang: a
jeep or smalltruck for conveying troops.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a horse-drawn carriage in India
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'd two or three cab voyages, "gharry," I should have said, before I got the best part of ours to the Taj Hotel.
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The "gharry" makes an excellent perambulating studio -- it is a small, high, wooden cab, with little lattice shutters instead of glass which pull up all round so that you can let down those you need for view, aft or forward, or at either side, and pull up the others and thus have privacy and light and air, and you need no stove or hot pipes, for you could roast a partridge inside!
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"gharry," and drove to Emmerson's Hotel, near the Esplanade.
On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894
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We call it ‘gharry’ in the Ethiopian language, but they are used as a taxi, he said.
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We call it ‘gharry’ in the Ethiopian language, but they are used as a taxi, he said.
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In the street he found a gharry after a while and drove to his hotel.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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They were halted again at a gloomy gateway where an officer came out to look them over; by his leave they left the gharry and followed him under the arch until their heels rang on stone paving in a big ill-lighted courtyard surrounded by high walls.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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He leapt off the gharry, throwing his heavy ceremonial garb into the crowd before he hit the ground, clothed in sandals and a loin cloth wrap, he took off through the crowd.
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As was customary for the Sangha they broke for lunch to collect alms for the noonday meal, the King wondering where his son was, travelled by gharry down to the central marketplace.
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Huddled safe back in the royal gharry, distraught he looked up and asked Chandaka about the old men he had seen.
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Usage on barouche.
October 22, 2008