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ekka en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛkə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi एक्का (ekkā).

Meanings

1. (India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.
   • He said that he was ‘going to shoot big game’, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 19:
   • Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which the natives travel, and until recent times was the only one available to Europeans. 2007, J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes), page 2779:

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