gharry
noun
a horse-drawn cab or carriage used in India and Egypt.
gharries
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pluralof gharry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Leaving them to look after the luggage,57 the Doctor and I got our two invalids into gharries, and drove at once to Malabar Point to stay with the Governor and Lady Reay.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
Let gharries be got together at once to take the infantry forty miles, then they will start fresh for a thirty-mile march.
From In Times of Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"Anyhow it seems a huge, stirring sort of place," he added, as he watched motors, bicycles, and gharries whirring past the entrance.
From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
On reaching Aleppo, in the evening, the orderlies and servants were marched off by themselves, and after loading our kit on to carts we were driven away in gharries from the station.
From A Kut Prisoner by H. C. W. Bishop
What will, perhaps, most strike Europeans are the bullock gharries by which the heavy traffic of the town is carried on.
From Burma Peeps at Many Lands by R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly
