单词 | gharry |
释义 | gharryn. Anglo-Indian. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] carc1320 chara1400 charet?a1400 wagon1542 carry1600 rotan1676 messagerie1777 pillbox1789 bandy1791 Pennsylvania wagon1800 gharry1810 rath1813 vardo1819 rig1831 1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum 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. 1849 Judson in Wayland's Mem. J. (1853) II. 267 She drives out every morning in a gharry. 1866 G. O. Trevelyan Dawk Bungalow in Fraser's Mag. LXXIII. 384 Where my husband was to have met us with the two-horse gharee. 1887 J. C. Fife-Cookson Tiger-Shooting 5 The gharrie is a box-like vehicle with small wheels. It rather resembles a bathing-machine. Compounds gharry-driver n. ΚΠ 1883 I. L. Bishop in Leisure Hour 204/1 My gharrie-driver took me to see a ..pepper-plantation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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