bhusan.
/ˈbuːsə/, U.S. /ˈbusə/ India.
Husks and broken straw, used as food for cattle. Also attributive.
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hayc825
strawc1000
pease-strawa1325
bean-strawc1386
hard meat1481
quitch?1523
meadow1557
pease-bolt1573
salt hay1648
stover1669
barley-straw1678
marsh hay1728
pea straw1735
chaff1772
long forage1794
bog-hay1799
bhusa1829
peavine hay1846
tibbin1900
slough hay1934
1829 J. Tod Ann. Rajast'han I. 700 Bhoos stacks are erected to provide provender for the cattle in scanty rainy seasons.
1888 R. Kipling Beyond Pale in Plain Tales from Hills 148 In the packet was..a pinch of bhusa or cattle-food.
1901 R. Kipling Kim iii. 80 Grain and cotton and timber, bhoosa, lime and hides.
1904 Daily Chron. 28 Apr. 5/2 Two hundred and twenty-three maunds of bhoosa and 560 pounds barley.
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 331 Tow, straw, bhoosa and sacking.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 449/2 Having to wait weary hours sitting on a bhoosa bale.
1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction xxvi. 222 The explosives that had been found..under bhoosa stacked in cattle sheds.
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