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‖ ghaut, ghat Anglo-Indian.|gɔːt|
Forms: 7 gaot, 7–8 gate (guate), 8–9 gaut, (8 gette), 9 ghât, 8– ghaut.
[Hindi ghāt.
The senses are here placed in the order of their occurrence in English. The order of development, however, is as follows: 1. A path of descent to a river; hence a landing-stage, a quay, the place of a ferry. 2. A path down from a mountain; a mountain pass. 3. In pl., the name erroneously given by Europeans to the mountain ranges parallel to the east and west coasts of India.]
1. the Ghauts: the name applied by Europeans to two chains of mountains along the eastern and western sides of southern Hindostan, known as the Eastern and Western Ghauts.
1603R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 200 Narsinga..lieth Between the mountain Gate and the gulfe of Bengala. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 49 All along here the Top of Gates is seen above the Clouds. 1762J. Rennell MS. Let. 21 Mar. (Y.), The Mountains of Gate (a string of Hills in ye country). 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 342 Thickets which clothe the skirts of the eastern ghats where they approach the sea. 1879R. H. Elliot Writ. on Fore⁓heads II. 5 The ravines..which run down into the forest at the foot of the ghauts.
2. a. A mountain pass or defile.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 126, I sent to the Havaldar, to know when he would Pass us up the Gaot. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 261/1 At the different gauts or passes into the mountains, duties..are levied. 1803Wellington Let. to Murray 26 Apr. in Gurw. Desp. (1837) I. 520 The ghaut I am informed is exceedingly bad. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales II. 36 This tigress had been the terror of the country, having long infested the Gaut. 1876J. Grant Hist. India I. lxi. 309/2 The army descended the Ghauts.
attrib.1876Ind. Forester III. 465 The whole forest region below is now pierced by easy ghât roads..In the lower ghât forests we can offer Castilloa elastica a habitat quite as unhealthy as its own in America.
b. transf.
1807J. Hall Trav. Scot. I. 198 Not a house or hut is to be seen in this gloomy gaut.
3. A passage or flight of steps leading to the river-side; hence, gen. a landing-place, the place of a ford or ferry.
1783Rennell Mem. Map Hindostan Introd. (1788) 128 Gaut or Ghaut signifies..a landing-place on the bank of a river. 1793W. Hodges Trav. India 60 Several Hindoo temples greatly embellish the banks of the river, and are all ascended to by Gauts, or flights of steps. 1834H. Caunter Orient. Ann. xi. 142 He descended the Gaut, and entered the water with his long hair trailing upon the steps behind him. 1842Bp. D. Wilson in Life (1860) II. 195 Lord Auckland..walked..to the ghât at the river side. 1862Rep. Direct. E. Ind. Railw. Comp. 25 The following materials have been delivered at the Ghauts on the Ganges, in the neighbourhood of the line. 1888Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 25 In the afternoon we stopped near Pokureea Ghat (ferry) to have some tiffin. Ibid. 136 ‘Look out, boys! there's a ghat on ahead’; and..we descried one of those cart-tracks worn down the face of the bank, and leading to a ford.
4. In full burning-ghat. A level spot at the top of a river ghat on which Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.
1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 567/1 To erect cinerators on the burning ghat or ground. 1885Kipling Life's Handicap (1891) 328 A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat. 1908Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 5/4 At the ghat, or funeral pyre, a mixture of milk and cocoanut water..was poured into the mouth of the corpse. 1937L. Bromfield Rains Came i. i. 12 He came frequently along these paths to the ghats after nightfall. There was a kind of macabre beauty about the place, and in the spectacle of the cremation itself there was a kind of faith and certainty. 1964A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset ii. 33 The corpses were taken to the burning ghats outside the city. |