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godown1 Anglo-Indian.|gəʊˈdaʊn|
Also 6 godon, 7 gadonge, gedong, goedown.
[ad. Malay gadong, godong, supposed to be a. Telugu giḍaṅgi, Tamil kidaṅgu ‘a place where goods lie’, f. kiḍu ‘to lie’ (Yule). Some early writers state that these stores were subterranean, which may partly account for the form which the word has assumed in English.]
A warehouse or store for goods, in India and other parts of Eastern Asia.
1588T. Hickock tr. C. Frederick's Voy. 27 a, The merchants haue all one house or Magason, which house they call Godon. 1615R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 15 We delivered 500 sackes of wheat..440 out of our gedong. Ibid. 89 In full payment of the fee symple of the gadonge over the way. 1632R. Fitche in St. Papers, Col. E. Ind. 309 His bottles..will be safe in the godown. 1788Ann. Reg. 239 The godowns mostly carried away. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master iv. 83 Which some parsee had brought from town, And lodg'd it safe in a godown. 1861Bp. G. Smith Ten Weeks Japan xviii. 254 The streets of Yokuhama are wide..containing on either side merchants' godowns and offices. 1878J. H. Gray China II. xix. 69 There are khans which are depots or godowns for the goods of travelling merchants.
attrib.1804W. Tennant Ind. Recreat. (ed. 2) I. 45 The innumerable items of godown, and house rent. |