kuranchee

English

Alternative forms

• cranchee, karanchi

Noun

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.