golahn.
/ˈɡəʊlə/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊlə/ Indian English. Now chiefly historical.
A storehouse for grain, salt, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > granary
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1762 tr. Let. in Orig. Papers Disturbances in Bengal (1765) I. 201 Wherever a Gunge or Golah has been established they..leave my officers no authority.
1771 Gentleman's Mag. 41 402 Seapoys were stationed at their Golahs, to prevent the delivering any rice without a permit.
1808 Caledonian Mercury 24 Dec. The Honourable Company's Salt Golahs, at Sulkeah..were set on fire by the lightning.
1877 Edinb. Rev. July 46/2 At the depot selected for the delivery of rice, store-houses, or golas, were erected for its keeping... As many as 5,000 carts at a time would sometimes be assembled round a gola enclosure.
1910 H. F. Howard Let. 14 May in Rep. Maritime Trade Bengal 1909–10 35 Night work is also permitted at Sulkee under certain conditions from 6 to 10 p.m. for discharge of import salt from boats into the golahs.
1996 K. Chatterjee Merchants, Politics, & Society in Early Mod. India ii. 52 Transportation costs were so significant..that the distance of golas from the procurement zones pushed up prices.
2013 Social Scientist 41 6 The grain merchants could carry on such trade because they owned golahs where grain could be stored for many months.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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