kyar

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noun

A car.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounkyar (plural kyars)

plural kyars

  1. 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 383
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    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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