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‖ dustuck, dustuk East Ind.|ˈdʌstʌk|
Also 8 dustick.
[a. Pers. and Urdū dastak passport.]
A passport; applied esp. to the passports granted by the covenanted servants of the East India Company.
1748in J. Long Sel. fr. Rec. Govt. (Fort William) (Y.), The Zemindar..stopped several boats with English Dusticks. 1783Burke Rep. Indian Affairs Wks. XI. 173 Persons, who had not the protection of the Company's dustuck. 1862Beveridge Hist. India I. iii. xii. 673 The European officials..availed themselves of the dustuks or passports of their employers, to smuggle goods. |