释义 |
‖ bhoosa India.|ˈbuːsə| Also bhoos, bhusa. [Hindi bhus, bhusā.] Husks and broken straw, used as food for cattle. Also attrib.
1829Tod Annals I. 700 Bhoos stacks are erected to provide provender for the cattle in scanty rainy seasons. 1888Kipling Plain Tales from Hills 148 A pinch of bhusa or cattle⁓food. 1901― Kim iii. 80 Grain and cotton and timber, bhoosa, lime and hides. 1920Blackw. Mag. Oct. 449/2 Having to wait weary hours sitting on a bhoosa bale. 1954J. Masters Bhowani Junction xxvi. 222 The explosives that had been found..under bhoosa stacked in cattle sheds. |