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Definition of Rickshaw
1. Noun. A small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person.
Definition of Rickshaw
1. Noun. A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person ¹
2. Verb. to move someone by means of a rickshaw (noun sense) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rickshaw
1. a small, two-wheeled passenger vehicle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rickshaw
Literary usage of Rickshaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... road to the turning below the Commander-in-Chief's house as I might walk by
the side of any living woman's 'rickshaw, deep in conversation. ..."
2. The Cuckoo in the Nest by Oliphant (Margaret) (1892)
"INDIAN TALES, CONTAINING PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS, SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY
OF THE GADSBYS, THE PHANTOM 'rickshaw, IN BLACK AND WHITE, and WEE WILLIE ..."
3. When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln (1894)
"CHAPTER IV MY FIRST 'rickshaw RIDE MY husband would not ride in a ... I want to
go for a 'rickshaw ride," I cried. " In all this rain ? ..."
4. Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the by William Patten, Broughton Brandenburg, P.F. Collier & Son Corporation (1906)
"... THE PHANTOM 'rickshaw By RUDYARD KIPLING 'Y doctor tells me that I need rest
and change of air. It is not improbable that I shall get both ere long—rest ..."
5. The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe: Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious by Ernest Young (1907)
"A rickshaw. The New Year holidays also last three days. They commence on the
First of April, a day which is scarcely auspicious from the European point of ..."
6. The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe: Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious by Ernest Young (1907)
"A rickshaw. The New Year holidays also last three days. They commence on the
First of April, a day which is scarcely auspicious from the European point of ..."
7. Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India by Arvind Ganesan, Patricia Gossman (1996)
"The constables had to lift him and drag him into the auto [rickshaw]. ...
The three of us carried the boy out and laid him on a cycle-rickshaw we found ..."
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