a light, low, four-wheeled, open vehicle used mainly in Russia, in which the passengers sit astride or sideways on a long, narrow bench.
2.
any of various other carriages, used mainly in Russia.
Origin: 1800–10; < Russ drózhki, orig. dim. of drógi a long, bodyless wagon, pl. (functioning as sing.) of drogá one of the shafts joining the front and rear axles of a wagon
drosh·ky (drŏsh'kē) n.
pl.drosh·kies also drosh·kys also drosh·kys also dros·kys An open four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage formerly used in Russia and Poland.
[Russian drozhki, diminutive of drogi, wagon, pl. of droga, shaft of a wagon.]