单词 | bhisti |
释义 | bhistin. In India, the servant who supplies an establishment with water, which he carries in a skin slung on his back. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > water-carrier bhisti1781 pakhali1781 1781 India Gaz. 24 Nov. With the loss of only 1 sepoy, 1 beasty, and a cossy. 1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 229 If he carries the water himself, in the skin of a goat,..he then receives the designation of Bheesty. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 63 Jehan, the bheestie's daughter, was a virtuous girl. 1883 W. E. Baxter Winter in India (ed. 2) ii. 22 Bheesties pressing water out of their pigskins to lay the dust. 1922 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 408/2 A beestie..splashed a little water from his mussack on his upturned face. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1781 |
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