单词 | puckauly bag |
释义 | > as lemmaspuckauly bag In South Asia (esp. India): a person employed to dispense water from leather bags carried on the back of a bullock. Also: (more fully puckauly bag) = pakhal n.; (in quot. 1841) the bullock carrying the water bags. Cf. bhisti n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > water-carrier bhisti1781 pakhali1781 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > leather > for water waterskinOE mussuck1610 waterskin1752 pakhali1781 girba1790 pakhal1842 chagal1909 1781 1st Rep. Comm. Secrecy Causes War in Carnatic (House of Commons) 48 Native Comissioned Officers in Number 20, Drummers 12 and Puckallys 10. 1789 I. Munro Narr. Mil. Operations Coromandel Coast xiii. 183 Another very necessary establishment..which is two buccalies to each company: these are two large leathern bags, for holding water, slung upon the back of a bullock. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1844) I. 334 A puckalie from each corps of Native infantry in camp. 1841 Mrs. Clemons Manners & Customs India iv. 25 The water-bullocks delivering a supply of water for each tent..are called puck-allies. They have a leathern bag, which is slung across the animal's back. 1903 D. Irvine Army of Indian Moghuls 289 Dārā Shuloh had at the siege of Qandahār..500 pakhālis (men bringing water in large skins carried on animals). 1908 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) IV. 368 Every unit has..pakhālis (water carriers with bullocks)..and a ‘conservancy’ establishment of bhistis (water-carriers), sweepers, and carts. < as lemmas |
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