Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.582
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.582
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1600.—“These they use to make Instruments of wherewith to fish . . . as also to make weapons, as Bows, Arrowes, Aponers, and Assagayen.”—Disc. of Guinea, from the Dutch, in Purchas, ii. 927.