Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9220

1757.—"On the 6th the Major (Eyre Coote) left Muxadabad with . . . 10 Mar-mutty men, or pioneers to clear the road."—Ices, 156.