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rickshaw

or rick·sha

[ rik-shaw, -shah ]

noun

  1. a small, two-wheeled, cartlike passenger vehicle with a fold-down top, pulled by one person, formerly used widely in Japan and China.


rickshaw

/ ˈrɪkʃə; ˈrɪkʃɔː /

noun

  1. Also calledjinrikisha a small two-wheeled passenger vehicle drawn by one or two men, used in parts of Asia
  2. Also calledtrishaw a similar vehicle with three wheels, propelled by a man pedalling as on a tricycle


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rickshaw1

First recorded in 1875–80; by contraction of jinrikisha ( def )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rickshaw1

C19: shortened from jinrikisha

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Example Sentences

Others were pedaled up the fortress path in a decked-out rickshaw.

The guidebooks tell one story of Delhi: the beautiful Mughal gardens and the city snapped from a rickshaw.

But to see obscene displays of wealth, take an auto rickshaw out to the museum at the Umaid Bhawan Palace.

Among them was Rowena Estoya's husband Bernado, a bicycle rickshaw driver with curly hair and a patient manner.

They will be coming to the big cities, looking for jobs that won't be created if India expands at a rickshaw rate of growth.

Somehow there was no conveyance in waiting, not even a rickshaw, so Maynebrace and his flag-lieutenant had to walk.

The rickshaw man's life, I was told in Japan, is several years shorter than that of the average man.

It takes more than half an hours rickshaw drive to get to the Embassy, where I called this morning.

There had been very little shelling, and I had taken my first outing in the shape of a rickshaw drive during the afternoon.

The native name for the mail-cart-like hand-carriage I called a rickshaw at first.

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