East Indian. Also teeka. [ad. Hindṭ ṭhīkā or ṭhīkah hire, fare, fixed price (Yule).] attrib. Engaged on contract, hired; esp. in ticca gharry, hired carriage.
1827. Bengal Regulations, 27 June (Y.). A Rule, Ordinance and Regulation … for regulating the number and fare of Teeka Palankeens, and Teeka Bearers in the Town of Calcutta.
1878. Life in Mofussil, II. 94 (Y.). We got into a ‘ticca gharry,’ ‘hired trap.’
1895. Mrs. B. M. Croker, Village Tales (1896), 48. You … can, no doubt, retire and set up a ticca gharry, or a shop.
1903. Blackw. Mag., Dec., 817. Engaged in a … wrangle with a Ticca carriage-driver.
