Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.540
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.540
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1616.—“Some small quantitie of Wine, but not common, is made among them; they call it *Raack*, distilled from Sugar and spicie Rinde of a Tree called *Jaggery*.”—*Terry, in Purchas*, ii. 1470.