khetn.
/keɪt/ In India, a tract of cultivated land.
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till-land1437
till-ridge1549
cultivation1757
wainage1810
khet1878
Dusun1914
1878 P. Robinson In my Indian Garden 176 In the still air could be heard..from the scattered khets, the bark of the prowling fox.
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 63 In all the swampy jheels and crop-grown khets.
1922 19th Cent. Oct. 589 The land is divided by one broad distinction into the khet and the jungle—that is to say, into the cultivated and the wild.
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