gharry
noun
a horse-drawn cab or carriage used in India and Egypt.
gharri
-
a variation of
gharry.
Example Sentences
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She was just wondering whether she would take a gharri when a motor stopped at the curb and Peter got out.
From Jan and Her Job by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
I never knew the course nor the place where we left our gharri and took to narrower ways afoot, but here the nightmare closed in upon us.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
Johnny Lockett was not very popular with his superiors after that and I believe he went back to driving the internal gharri.
From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by John Cox
It was all a bad dream, and it began badly, in a dog kennel of a ticca gharri that racked us in tune to our own jarring thoughts.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
She was so terrified that she did not dare to look out, but shut at once the windows of the gharri.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
