[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) › c10.9206 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9206 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9206 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9206) c. 1830.—"Smite my timbers, do the trees bear shellfish? The tide in the Gulf of Mexico does not ebb and flow above two feet except in the springs, and the ends of the drooping branches of the mangrove trees that here cover the shore, are clustered, within the wash of the water, with a small well-flavoured oyster."—Tom Cringle, ed. 1863, 119. - [Previous: c10.9205](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9205) - [Next: c10.9207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9207) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9206](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9206) · Pramāṇa