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noun
A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, historical
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noun
The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, historical
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noun
A small fort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India
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noun
Fishing offal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Diarrhoea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, uncountable
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History
From Hindi गढ़ी (gaṛhī, “fort”).
Origin unknown. Attested from the mid-nineteenth century. Perhaps derived from Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwher- (“hot; warm”). Compare Saterland Frisian Gorre (“muddy liquid; thick, liquid manure”), Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth”).
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