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单词 muchalka
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muchalkan.

Brit. /muːˈtʃalkə/, U.S. /muˈtʃɑlkə/
Forms: 1600s mochelke, 1800s muchelka, 1800s– moochulka, 1800s– muchalka, 1900s– muchulka.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Partly a borrowing from Persian. Etymons: Urdu mucalkā; Persian mucalkā.
Etymology: < Urdu mucalkā and its etymon Persian mucalkā < Mongolian möcelge examination, interrogation < möcekü to examine, interrogate, test.
Chiefly Anglo-Indian. Now rare.
A written bond.
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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun]
recognizancea1325
surety1417
band1521
estatute1584
bond1592
reconnoissance1666
muchalka1679
personal recognizance1818
1679 J. Charnock Let. 13 Oct. in R. C. Temple Diaries of Streynsham Master (1911) II. 273 He would order an account to be taken of our petre, and then take a Mochelke of us and dispatch our books.
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 323 The soubahdar insisting upon the man giving a muckelka [sic] to produce the stolen goods was an assumption of authority, highly unwarrantable.
1818 T. Munro in G. R. Gleig Life (1849) 265 Lord B—— told me that I should have ten thousand pagodas per annum, and all my expenses paid;..I never thought of taking a Muchalka from Lord B——, because [etc.].
1855 H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms India 348/1 Muchalka, a written obligation or agreement, a bond, a deed;..commonly..a counterpart covenant on the part of the proprietors or cultivators of land, agreeing to the rates of assessment imposed by the government.
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 578/2 Moochulka, a written obligation or bond.
2001 Times of India (Nexis) 22 Feb. Most of them were sent to jail since they failed to produce muchalka (bailbond).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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