¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Britska
1. an open carriage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Britska
Literary usage of Britska
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence by Great Britain Central Criminal Court, Henry Buckler (1840)
"be paid before Saturday night"—Smith then returned, and the two prisoners rode
away in the britska—a horse and harness was brought to take it—in a day or ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1830)
"No carriage of lighter construction than the Mail britska is in fact safe to post
in, because post-horses, being accustomed to rather heavy draughts, ..."
3. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1840)
"We searched long for something suitable, and finally hit upon a light britska
and a wagon. The former was sufficient for the five gentlemen, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1851)
"The little orator Louis BLANC had for forty days an elegant little britska, named
the Humming-bird, with two ponies, Millet- seed and Ciron—Ciron being what ..."
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