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‖ ticca East Ind.|ˈtɪkə, ˈtiːkaː|
Also teeka, tikka.
[ad. Hindī ṭhīkā or ṭhīkah hire, fare, fixed price (Yule).]
attrib. Engaged on contract, hired; esp. in ticca gharry, hired carriage.
1827Bengal Regulations 27 June (Y.), A Rule, Ordinance and Regulation..for regulating the number and fare of Teeka Palankeens, and Teeka Bearers in the Town of Calcutta. 1878Life in Mofussil II. 94 (Y.) We got into a ‘ticca gharry’, ‘hired trap’. 1888Kipling Soldiers Three (1889) 10 That tikka..has been owin' an' fere-owin' all over the bloomin' maidan. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 48 You..can, no doubt, retire and set up a ticca gharry, or a shop. 1903Blackw. Mag. Dec. 817 Engaged in a..wrangle with a Ticca carriage-driver. 1911R. E. Vernede An Ignorant in India i. 5 He had collected enough porters to get it into a tikka ghari. 1928Blackw. Mag. Apr. 498/1 Tikka-gharris, bullock-carts, hand-trucks, and coolies combined to raise..an excruciating din. 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions ix. 151 The drivers of phaetons and tikka-gharis, tongas and ekkas. |