Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9078
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9078
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1852.—". . . by means of a mometty or hatchet, which he ran and borrowed from a husbandman . . . this fellow dug . . . a reservoir. . ."—Neale, Narrative of Residence in Siam, 138.]