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rickshaw
[ rik-shaw, -shah ]
noun
- a small, two-wheeled, cartlike passenger vehicle with a fold-down top, pulled by one person, formerly used widely in Japan and China.
rickshaw
/ ˈrɪkʃɔː; ˈrɪkʃə /
noun
- Also calledjinrikisha a small two-wheeled passenger vehicle drawn by one or two men, used in parts of Asia
- Also calledtrishaw a similar vehicle with three wheels, propelled by a man pedalling as on a tricycle
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Origin of rickshaw1
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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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