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▪ I. ‖ cutcherry, cutchery Anglo-Indian.|kəˈtʃɛrɪ, ˈkʌtʃərɪ|
Also 7 cichery, queshery, 8 cutcheree, -ie, kuchurry, 8–9 kutcherry, 9 kutcheri, kucheree, 20 kach(ch)eri.
[a. Hindī kachahri, kachērī, hall or chamber of audience, hence, court for administration of business, office, town-house. The first pronunciation above is used in Northern India, the second at Madras.]
1. An office of administration, a court-house. Also the business office of an indigo-planter, etc.
1610Hawkins in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) I. 439 (Y.) The Cichery or Court of Rolls, where the King's Viseer sits every morning some three houres. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 261 (Y.) The Royal Exchange or Queshery. 1763Verelst in Phil. Trans. LIII. 266 The great Cutcherry there, with brick walls. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. i. 9 The [broker]..fixes upon a habitation, which he calls his cutchery. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lvii, The prodigious labours of cutcherry. 1903Oxf. Mag. 11 Feb. 208/1 The Kachcheri..is the centre of official life in the province. 1926United Free Ch. Miss. Rec. Sept. 391/2, I can't have the Kacheri turned into a pawnshop.
attrib.1771Gentl. Mag. XLI. 403 We had 100 people employed upon the Cutcherry List. 1913L. Woolf Village in Jungle vii. 179 He was standing..frightened, on the Kachcheri verandah.
†2. A division or brigade of infantry. Obs.
1799Harris in Owen Wellesley's Desp. 119 A cutcherie or Brigade of Infantry was pushed forward.
▪ II. cutcherry
obs. var. kedgeree (Anglo-Ind.). |