[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.429 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.429 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.429 - **Language:** English ### [c10.429](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.429) \*\*ANICUT\*\*, s. Used in the irrigation of the Madras Presidency for the dam constructed across a river to fill and regulate the supply of the channels drawn off from it; the cardinal work in fact of the great irrigation systems. The word, which has of late years become familiar all over India, is the Tam. comp. \*anai-kattu\*, 'Dam-building.' - [Previous: c10.428](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.428) - [Next: c10.430](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.430) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.429](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.429) · Pramāṇa