telega

American  

[tuh-leg-uh, tyi-lye-guh] / təˈlɛg ə, tyɪˈlyɛ gə /

noun

1. a Russian cart of rude construction, having four wheels and no springs.

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telega British  

/ tɛˈleɪɡə /

noun

1. a rough four-wheeled cart used in Russia

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Etymology

Origin of telega

First recorded in 1550–60; from Russian teléga, probably ultimately from Mongolian; compare classical Mongolian telege(n) “carriage”

Example Sentences

Zakhar, who had made it easy for Skshetuski to see the prisoners, comforted him while returning to the telega.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

His wounds, dressed in Cossack fashion by the old inspector of weights and measures, opened; fever attacked him, and that night he lay half senseless in a Cossack telega, unconscious of God's world.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

He seated himself in his telega, in which lay two trunks, one containing his pistols, the other his effects.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

Rezanov, in a fever which he attributed to rage, dismissed the telega at a village and awaited the coming of Jon, who followed on horseback with the personal luggage.

From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Curiously primitive, the telega is four-wheeled, with two planks thrown crudely across the axle-trees.

From The Secret of the Night by Leroux, Gaston