English

Noun

gharry ‎(plural gharries)

1. A wheeled cart or carriage (usually horsedrawn).
   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 10,

     He thought of Rosa McFee, the Eurasian girl he had seduced in Mandalay in 1913. The way he used to sneak down to the house in a gharry with the shutters down […]

   • 1977, Pablo Neruda, Memoirs, translated by Hardie St. Martin, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Chapter 4, p. 86,

     My British friends saw me in a gharry, a little horse-drawn cab used mainly for ephemeral trysts in transit, and offered me the kindly advice that a consul should never use these vehicles for any purpose.

2. (South Africa, military, slang) A jeep or small truck for conveying troops.

References

1. ↑ McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford university press. 1993