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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The Government spoke of archaic labor, but last week the ricksha men showed how necessary their labor was to a nation that is not yet wholly modern.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw the man who pushed the ricksha coming towards the car.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through gall and goad, the ricksha man has clung to his calling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nehru thought that the would-be assassin, a 33-year-old Hindu ricksha boy called Babu Rao Laxman Kohale, was simply "a cranky person."
From Time Magazine Archive
And with all Wang Lung’s pulling and running before his ricksha and with all O-lan’s begging, they never could gain enough to cook rice daily in their own hut.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
