kuranchee

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kuranchee (plural kuranchees)

  1. (India, obsolete) A crude form of horse-drawn carriage.
    • 1851, Allen's Indian Mail and Register of Intelligence for British Foreign India, China, and All Parts of the East, page 156:
      [] the whole face of the country was covered in all directions with kuranchees, carts, donkeys, and bullocks, conveying, towards Meean Meer, the remnants of what had been bricks.