Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of hack gharry: so called in Bombay.
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- noun In
India , acarriage drawn byanimals .
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Examples
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The carriage, of course, was "a rattle-trap vehicle" called a shigram - the sarcasm unmistakable in the use of a word that meant 'swift'.
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The two sturdy oxen trotted along at a good pace in obedience to the driver's goad, and the shigram rattled across Bombay Green, past the church and the whitewashed houses of the English merchants, their oyster-shell windows already lit up; and in some forty-five minutes entered a long avenue leading to Mr. Bourchier's country house.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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Turning away he hurried out past the tank house on to the Green, and by good luck found an empty shigram {carriage like a palanquin on wheels} waiting to be hired.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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But I should prefer a _shigram_, if it only had a better name, "replied she.
Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859
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