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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It is a delightful debut, a cross between a Chinese circus and a ricksha pileup.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through gall and goad, the ricksha man has clung to his calling.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Government spoke of inhumanity, but most ricksha men had come out of the greater inhumanity of hungry villages and hopeless slums.
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
The jingle of ricksha bells blended with car horns, the come-ons of street peddlers, a woman’s laughter, music from a nearby bar.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
