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Definition of Gharry
1. Noun. A horse-drawn carriage in India.
Definition of Gharry
1. n. Any wheeled cart or carriage.
Definition of Gharry
1. Noun. A wheeled cart or carriage (usually horsedrawn). ¹
2. Noun. South African military slang: a jeep or small truck for conveying troops. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gharry
1. a carriage used in India [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gharry
Literary usage of Gharry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe: Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious by Ernest Young (1907)
"Little cholera lamps swung aloft at the A gharry. ends of long slender poles,
sway backwards and forwards, telling where the grim fiend has entered in his ..."
2. The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe: Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious by Ernest Young (1907)
"Little cholera lamps swung aloft at the A gharry. ends of long slender poles,
sway backwards and forwards, telling where the grim fiend has entered in his ..."
3. My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 by Sir William Howard Russell (1860)
"A living corpus delicti.—Sir J. Outrata attacked.—Buy a gharry, a horse, and
coachman.—Our army on the move.—Destruction of Hindoo temples. ..."
4. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... Crowd on Wharf—Natives of Madras Coast—Malays Dislike Work—The Sarong and
Fez—We Drive Up to the Town in a gharry—Ponies Are Like Dogs—Rubbed Down with ..."
5. Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran, 1845-1876 by John Ruggles (1906)
"... -gharry—Terrible experience of Captain Waterman—Removal of the treasury— Our
six months' mail—A treasured piece of furniture—Honour for General ..."
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