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plural kyars
- IrelanddatednonstandardA car.
After passing through Newbridge, where the cavalry barracks are, a 'kyar' took us to the Curragh Camp, where two or three thousand men only were then in camp.
1874, The Oriental Sporting Magazine, page 3831 more example
The first Bianconi Car started from Clonmel to Cahir, twelve miles, on the 5th of July, 1815, the fare was eighteenpence; but no one patronised it! Not a single passenger tried the car; the peasantry could walk gratis why pay for a "kyar"?
1892, Henry Frith, The Romance of Engineering, page 64
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