A carriage for a single person; generally in the form of a chaise.
He bought him a sulky and a fast trotter.--J. C. Neal, p. 40.
·adj A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person. II. Sulky ·noun Moodly silent; sullen; sour;...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A one-horse chaise or carriage, capable of holding but one person: called by the French a DESOBLIGEA...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose