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1. abkari, n. View full entry 1790
...In India: the production and sale of distilled alcoholic drinks; the duty levied on this. Also used allusively with reference to the system of managing the sale of alcohol solely through certain...
2. bahadur, n. View full entry 1776
...A great man, distinguished personage. Often affixed as a title to an officer's name. ...
3. bangy | banghy, n. View full entry 1789
...A yoke for carrying loads; such a yoke with its pair of baskets or boxes; hence, parcel post....
4. bheesty | bheestie, n. View full entry 1781
...In India, the servant who supplies an establishment with water, which he carries in a skin slung on his back....
5. bhut, n. View full entry 1785
...In India, a spirit; a demon or goblin....
6. brinjarry, n. View full entry 1793
...A travelling grain and salt merchant of the Deccan....
7. budgerow, n. View full entry 1727
...‘A lumbering keelless barge, formerly much used by Europeans travelling on the Ganges’ (Col. Yule)....
8. bundobust | bandobast, n. View full entry 1776
...An arrangement, organization; preparations....
9. bunnia, n. View full entry 1790
...A trader or merchant. Also attrib....
10. chatta, n. View full entry 1796
...An umbrella (in India)....
11. chatty, n. View full entry 1781
...An East Indian pot for water; spec. a porous earthen water-pot or jar....
12. chee-chee, n. View full entry 1781
...A word applied disparagingly to the ‘minced English’ of Eurasians or half-breeds in India, and so to the class themselves....
13. chit, n.5 View full entry 1785
...Short for chitty...
14. chopper, n.4 View full entry 1780
...A thatched roof. Also attrib....
15. chow-chow, n. and adj. View full entry 1795
... A mixture or medley of any sort; e.g. mixed pickles or preserves. Also, food of any kind. India and China....
16. circar, n. View full entry 1784
...A province or division of Hindustan under the Moguls. Northern Circars...
17. ˈclashy | ˈclashee, n. View full entry 1785
...A tent-pitcher; a surveyor's chain-man; a native sailor (Yule)....
18. Collery, n. View full entry 1763
...The name of a non-Aryan people inhabiting an area of southern India to the east of Madura....
19. cotta | cottah, n.3 View full entry 1784
...‘A small land-measure containing eighty square yards’ (Yule)....
20. dāk, n. View full entry 1727
...Post or transport by relays of men or horses stationed at intervals; a relay of men or horses for carrying mails, etc., or passengers in palanquins. ...
