ticcan.
/ˈtɪkə/, /ˈtiːkɑː/, U.S. /ˈtɪkə/, /ˈtiˌkɑ/, Indian English /ˈʈhiːka(ː)/ East India.
attributive. Engaged on contract, hired; esp. in ticca gharry, hired carriage.
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society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > [adjective] > hired
hiredc1230
conduct1476
jobbed1827
ticca1827
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hired carriage > in India
palki-gharry1828
shigram1841
ticca gharry1878
tikka1955
1827 in Regulations Bengal VI. 132 A Rule, Ordinance and Regulation..for regulating the number and fare of Teeka Palankeens, and Teeka Bearers in the Town of Calcutta.
1878 G. Graham Life in Mofussil II. 94 We got into a ‘ticca gharry’, ‘hired trap’.
1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three 10 That tikka..has been owin' an' fere-owin' all over the bloomin' maidan.
1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 48 You..can, no doubt, retire and set up a ticca gharry, or a shop.
1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 817 Engaged in a..wrangle with a Ticca carriage-driver.
1911 R. E. Vernede Ignorant in India i. 5 He had collected enough porters to get it into a tikka ghari.
1928 Blackwood's 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.
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