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kago

[kah-goh]

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noun, plural ka·gos.

(in Japan) a small basketwork palanquin strung from a pole each end of which rests on the shoulder of a bearer.

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Origin of kago

1855–60; < Japanese: basket, cage

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for kago

"I have brought a present for our young master," and with a whistle, he summoned a kago that had been waiting in the garden.
Romances of Old Japan|Yei Theodora Ozaki
The road was very bad, so that even the kago bearers had difficulty in getting along.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II|A.E. Nordenskieold
The bearers of a kago are two stalwart, bare-legged men, and they always carry long sticks in their hands.
How the World Travels|A. A. Methley
In the mountainous regions the chair and kago take the place of the 'rikisha.
The Old World and Its Ways|William Jennings Bryan

They go by kago over mountain; you go by 'rickisha to Otsu, and wait.
The Honorable Percival|Alice Hegan Rice