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Definition of Cutcheries
1. cutchery [n] - See also: cutchery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutcheries
Literary usage of Cutcheries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1823)
"... at the - houses and cutcheries of great men, at the main guard of every
battalion, and head quarters of every detachment of troops. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1818)
"... at the houses and cutcheries of great men, at the main guard of every battalion,
and head-quarters of every detachment of troops. ..."
3. The History of British India by James Mill (1848)
"... that not an account was to be found in any of the village cutcheries, nor any
public servant who could give the smallest information; and that they have ..."
4. A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and by India Foreign and Political Dept (1892)
"... throughout all the inferior cutcheries, nor shall I oppose or deviate from
what they deem proper and advisable, or if I do I shall, becoming punishable ..."
5. A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From the First by Henry Beveridge (1862)
"... any pretence whatever ; and that copies thereof, in the English, the Persian,
and Bengal languages, be affixed to all the cutcheries of the provinces, ..."
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