Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.763
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.763
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1554.—“The *baar* of nuts (*noz*) contains 20 faraçolas, and 5 maunds more of picota; thus the *baar*, with its picota, contains 20½ faraçolas . . .”—*A. Nunes*, 6.