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Gharry

noun

A horse-drawn carriage in India.

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"Gharry" Quotes from Famous Books

... heels of Ahmed Ismail. The money-lender walked down the street to the Maidan, and then turned to the left. The Babu, on the other hand, hailed a third-class gharry and, ascending into it gave the driver some ...

— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason

... inevitable," who of course recommended us to the best hotel in the place (though I very much doubted his ever having been there before), we entered a little red box on wheels drawn by a Java pony, which is designated a "gharry," and drove to Emmerson's Hotel, near the Esplanade. This was reached after a drive of four miles under a blazing sun, and we were not sorry to find ourselves located in two good bed-rooms, which felt ...

— On the Equator • Harry de Windt

... the doctor; "he began to curse them in Hindustani for stopping his gharry, ordered them to let his servants go by, and the idiots took it that a complete change had come over the state of affairs; that Dost must have turned rajah, and was using the English as his slaves. So they all shouted with ...

— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn

Words linked to "Gharry" : rig, carriage, equipage