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hathi India.|ˈhɑːtɪ|
Also hotty, huttee, etc.
[Hind. hāthī (also Marathi, etc. hattī), f. Skr. hastin elephant, f. hasta elephant's trunk, hand.]
An elephant. Also attrib.: hathi tractor, a kind of tractor used in the war of 1914–18.
[1826Leyden & Erskine tr. Mem. Zehir-Ed-Din 315 As for the animals peculiar to Hindustân, one is the elephant, the Hindustânis call it Hathi.] 1831Tyerman & Bennet Voy. & Trav. II. 375 Our bearers suddenly set up the cry of ‘Huttee! huttee!’ 1838in E. Eden Up Country (1866) I. 269 You are of course aware that we habitually call elephants Hotties. 1860W. H. Russell Diary India I. 392 We came to the Ramgunga, a deep stream, which our elephant waded across... The hathi nearly floated his driver off his neck. 1890Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 51 An' the hathis pilin' teak. 1922Glasgow Herald 11 Feb. 10 Golden also was the head of the ‘hathi’ selected for this honour. 1926Glasgow Herald 27 Aug. 11 There was the Hathi tractor, constructed in the first place largely from German spare parts, captured during the war. The Hathi—its title is the Indian word for elephant—had besides the strength of the elephant qualities which that intelligent animal does not possess. |