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Definition of Chowry
1. n. A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.
Definition of Chowry
1. Noun. A fly-flapper or whisk originally made from the bushy tail of a yak. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chowry
1. a device for repelling flies [n CHOWRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chowry
Literary usage of Chowry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1892)
"... original sites of the third ' plot on the east, chowry Chur on the south, '
and Jahanabad on the west, the plaintiff's ' right of contiguous accretion ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1898)
"There, that's very much better,” she continued after a deft application of her
chowry' to the back of his jacket. “Are they fetching your hat, by the way? ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1839)
"... containing the ashes of the late Maha Rajah ; the premier, Rajah Dehan Singh,
on foot to the left, bearing a peacock feather chowry, and driving away ..."
4. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London, Zoological Society of London (1874)
"The patient (chowry Am- mall) is reported to have had high fever last night, and
the bowels deranged (loose). 22nd.—Modified small-pox eruptions are ..."
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