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1. akhara, n. View full entry 1832
...In India: a wrestling ring or pit; a gymnasium or outdoor exercise area....
2. bundook, n. View full entry 1886
...A musket or matchlock; a rifle....
3. chakra, n. View full entry 1883
...A circular weapon used by the Sikhs (see quots.)....
4. chokra, n. View full entry 1875
...A boy, youngster; esp. one employed as servant in a household or in a regiment....
5. Collery, n. View full entry 1763
...The name of a non-Aryan people inhabiting an area of southern India to the east of Madura....
6. conjee | congee, n. View full entry 1698
...The water in which rice has been boiled; used as an article of diet for invalids, and as starch....
7. coolie, n. View full entry 1622
...In India and (later also) China: a hired labourer (esp. one employed by a European); a porter (now esp. in a railway station). Hence also: an Asian labourer working abroad (now chiefly...
8. cutcherry | cutchery, n. View full entry 1610
...An office of administration, a court-house. Also the business office of an indigo-planter, etc....
9. dekko, n. View full entry 1894
...A look. Also as , to look, look at....
10. dixie, n.1 View full entry 1900
...An iron kettle or pot, used by soldiers for making tea or stew....
11. gingall | jingall, n. View full entry 1818
...A heavy musket fired from a rest; or a light gun mounted on a swivel, sometimes on a carriage. Used in China and India....
12. gurry, n.3 View full entry 1786
...A small native Indian fort....
13. hircarra | hircarrah | hurcaru, n. View full entry 1747
...An East Indian spy, messenger, or courier....
14. jaghire, n. View full entry 1684
...An assignment of the king's or government's share of the produce of a district to a person or body of persons, as an annuity, either for private use or for the maintenance...
15. jawan, n. View full entry 1839
...An Indian soldier....
16. jemadar, n. View full entry 1763
...A native officer in a Sepoy regiment, ranking next below a subahdar, and corresponding to a lieutenant; the name is also given to certain officers of police and other civil departments, and...
17. jildi, n. View full entry 1890
...Haste, as in phrases on the jildi, in a hurry, and to do or move a jildi....
18. jiwan, n. View full entry 1915
...= jawan; also, an Indian youth....
19. jungle, n. View full entry 1776
...In India, originally, as a native word, Waste or uncultivated ground (= ‘forest’ in the original sense); then, such land overgrown with brushwood, long grass, etc.; hence, in Anglo-Indian use:...
20. khaki, adj. and n. View full entry 1857
...Dust-coloured; dull brownish yellow, drab....
