rickshaw
noun
a small, two-wheeled, cartlike passenger vehicle with a fold-down top, pulled by one person, formerly used widely in Japan and China.
ricksha
-
a variation of
rickshaw.
Example Sentences
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In Shanghai, they staged a spectacular two-day strike against exorbitant rentals charged by the ricksha owners.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the conservative parties had agreed to support Hatoyama. and his only opponent was Mosaburo Suzuki, onetime ricksha boy who has become leader of the Diet's left-wing Socialists.
From Time Magazine Archive
China has some 400,000 ricksha men; with their families they number over a million.
From Time Magazine Archive
He rode a motorized ricksha and a cable car in San Francisco, a trolley in St. Louis, a stern-wheeler on the Ohio near Louisville, and a pea-green convertible in Wall Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
But another ricksha puller stood near and leaned over as he counted and he said to Wang Lung, “Only twenty-six. How far did you pull that old head?”
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
