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‖ lathi Anglo-Indian.|lʌˈtiː|
Also lathee, lattee, latti.
[Hindi lāṭhī.]
A long heavy stick, usually of bamboo and bound with iron. Also attrib.
1850F. Parks Wand. Pilgrim I. xiv. 132 A very heavy lāthī, a solid male bamboo, five feet five inches long, headed with iron in a most formidable manner. 1860Russell Diary India II. 317 Sometimes a peasant runs away with a long lathee or stick over his shoulder. 1864G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah 170 Placing a lattee, which is the name for the quarter-staff carried by all Indian peasants, under the defaulter's knee. 1878Life in Mofussil I. 114 We came upon about a hundred men..all with latties..in their hands. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 187 A man's body found in a nullah, killed by a sickle or a lathi (heavy stick). 1920Glasgow Herald 31 Dec. 7 Some disturbance..in which lathis were used. 1924R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 64 Then the new power, foreseeing grave events Calls out the lathi-wallahs to line the streets. 1930Daily Express 6 Nov. 3/6 The police made a number of lathi charges to disperse the crowd. 1936J. Nehru Autobiogr. 177 My body felt the baton and lathi blows of the police. 1972Times of India 28 Nov. 11/2 A judicial inquiry was demanded into the lathi-charge at Gulbarga. |