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‖ gharry Anglo-Indian.|ˈgærɪ, ˈgʌrɪ|
Also gari, gharee, gharrie, g'horry.
[Hindi gāṛī a cart or carriage.]
(See quots.)
1810Williamson E. Ind. Vade M. I. 329 The common g'horry..is rarely, if ever, kept by any European; but may be seen plying for hire in various parts of Calcutta. 1849Judson in Wayland's Mem. J. (1853) II. 267 She drives out every morning in a gharry. 1866Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow in Fraser's Mag. LXXIII. 384 Where my husband was to have met us with the two-horse gharee. 1887J. C. Fife-Cookson Tiger Shooting 5 The gharrie is a box-like vehicle with small wheels. It rather resembles a bathing-machine.
b. Comb., as gharry-driver.
1883I. L. Bishop in Leisure Hour 204/1 My gharrie-driver took me to see a ..pepper-plantation. |