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Quotation dates: 1874
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CHARRIT, n. A gig or carriage. Not known to our correspondents.Sc. 1874 A. Hislop Sc. Anecdotes 106:
Jock Kilgour . . . happened that day to be driving home from Perth in his gig, or, as he called it, his "charrit."
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