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.
rikisha,
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a variation of
rickshaw.
Example Sentences
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When I had passed to the entrance in the rikisha, this walk made so outlandishly a loud noise that I had felt coy.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri
When I went to see the Daibutsu at Kamakura, haying wrapped up myself from head to toe with a blanket, a rikisha man addressed me as "Gov'ner."
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri
I hurried ashore, with no feeling of regret, I might say, and took a rikisha to the outer sea wall to see whatever fighting was going on.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
I then hired a rikisha and arrived at the middle school, but school was already over and nobody was there.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri
According to Red Shirt, one has to make an all-day ride in a wagonette to Miyazaki, after he had left the vessel, and from Miyazaki another all-day ride in a rikisha to Nobeoka.
From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri
