Also 6 telego, 9 telaga, telegga, teljega, (telegue). [a. Russ. телъга, teljêga; whence also F. télègue.] A four-wheeled Russian cart, of rough construction, without springs.
1558. in Hakluyt, Voy. (1599), 315. With these Telegoes they caried our stuffe from Vologhda vnto the Mosco.
1807. Sir R. Wilson, Jrnl., 7 Sept., in Life (1862), II. viii. 365. I mounted my telaga and drove to Lord Gower’s.
1833. R. Pinkerton, Russia, 21. Government couriers travel in telegas, or four-wheeled simply-constructed carts.
1877. Mar. M. Grant, Sun-maid, x. We travelled for weeks in a teljèga, a sort of queer snow carriage.
1903. 19th Cent., March, 421. A party of poor telega-drivers.
