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gharry

NOUN
  1. a horse-drawn carriage in India

How To Use gharry In A Sentence

  • 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! From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
  • There was a panic in Dhurrumtolla; a "ticca-gharry" -- the shabby oblong box on wheels, dignified in municipal regulations as a hackney carriage -- was running away. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
  • 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
  • He made no other movement, no gesture, no sign, and remained facing in the new direction after the gharry had swung out of sight.
  • I'd two or three cab voyages, "gharry," I should have said, before I got the best part of ours to the Taj Hotel. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
  • She had not spoken to him since the night of the Viceroy's party, when she put her Bohemian head out of the ticca-gharry to wish him good-night, and he walked home alone under the stars, trying to remember The Path of a Star
  • We call it ‘gharry’ in the Ethiopian language, but they are used as a taxi, he said. Ethiopia’s Low-Tech, High-Value Transportation
  • 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. Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2
  • A ticca-gharry deposited a sea captain; three carriages arrived in succession; an indefinite number of the Duke's Own, hardly any of them drunk, filed in to the rupee seats under the gallery; an overflow from Hilda A Story of Calcutta
  • 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. Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2
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