jutkan.
/ˈdʒʌtkə/ In southern India, a light two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > light
Germantown1766
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cart1823
wagon1837
springboard1857
runabout1863
buck-wagon1864
beach-wagon1869
buckboard1874
tonga1874
buck-cart1884
jutka1886
runabout wagon1886
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 362/2 Jutka,..the native cab of Madras, and of Mofussil towns in that Presidency; a conveyance only to be characterised by the epithet ramshackle... It consists of a sort of box with venetian windows, on two wheels, and drawn by a miserable pony. It is entered by a door at the back.
1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant xxxi. 318 She..got her baggage on a jutka and drove away.
1927 Scots Observer 16 Apr. 3/2 All afternoon jutkas and carts..are arriving.
1947 R. K. Narayan Astrologer's Day 4 Jutka drivers swore at their horses.
1961 K. Nagarajan Chron. Kedaram 117 It was so reminiscent of a jutka pony.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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