ekka
See also: Ekka
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editekka (plural ekkas)
- (India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 19:
- He said that he was ‘going to shoot big game’, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.
- 2007, J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes)[1], page 2779:
- Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which the natives travel, and until recent times was the only one available to Europeans.
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editekka
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editekka
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edit- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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