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Definition of Bheesty
1. n. A water carrier, as to a household or a regiment.
Definition of Bheesty
1. a water carrier [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bheesty
Literary usage of Bheesty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"bheesty, a. The universal word in the Anglo-Indian households of N. India for
the domestic (corresponding to the sa4-4'd of Egypt) who supplies tile ..."
2. The Asiatic Annual Register: Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of edited by Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel (1809)
"... 2 troopers, 1 bheesty, and horses. Wounded—Europeans: 1 lieutenant. ...
1 naik, 23 sepoys, I bheesty, 1 naib-rus- saldar, ..."
3. Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal by Frank B. Simson (1886)
"... but if you find any difficulty, and that the number of servants must be kept
as small as possible, you can manage without a bheesty. ..."
4. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1825)
"Bengal Artillery—3 rank and file, 3 lascars, 1 bheesty, wounded. HM's 13th Lt.
Inf.—1 lieutenant, 1 Serjeant, 3 tank and Ale, ..."
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