Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9217

1840.—"I reached the jheel, and found it to contain many manickchors, ibis, paddy birds, &c. . . . "—*Davidson, Travels in Upper India*, ii. 165.]