shigramn.
/ˈʃɪɡrəm/, U.S. /ʃəˈɡrɑm/, Indian English /ˈʃiːɡhra(m)/ Bombay.
A kind of hack gharry, or palankin-carriage.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hired carriage > in India
palki-gharry1828
shigram1841
ticca gharry1878
tikka1955
1841 H. Miller in W. W. Peyton Life (1883) iv. 57.
1852 Life in Bombay 36 The humble shigram, a strange clumsy-looking article, which bears a striking family-likeness to an English bathing-machine.
1878 G. Smith Life J. Wilson (1879) vi. 105.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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n.1841- to bring on the proof
- to bring one to his knees
- to bring one's a-game
- to bring one's agame
- to bring one's eggs to a bad market
- to bring one's eggs to a etc market
- to bring one's eggs to a fair market
- to bring one's hogs to a bad market
- to bring one's hogs to a etc market
- to bring one's hogs to a fair market
- to bring one's nap up
- to bring one's noble to ninepence
- to bring one's nose to the grindstone
- to bring one's pigs to a fine market
- to bring one's pigs to market
- to bring oneself into trouble
- to bring or do on flight
- to bring or do on usually a flight
- to bring or do on usually o flight
- to bring or have the starboard or port tacks aboard
- to bring or put a animal to a stand
- to bring or put a person to a stand
- to bring or put to a stand
- to bring or put to the test
- to bring or put to utterance