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▪ I. ‖ gurrah1 Anglo-Indian.|ˈgʌrə|
[Hindi gāṛhā.]
A kind of plain coarse India muslin.
1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxxii. 393 These manufactories are of..Silk, and Silk and Cotton Romals, Gurrahs and Lungies. 1858in Simmonds Dict. Trade.
▪ II. gurrah2|ˈgʌrə|
Also gurah.
[Hind. ghaṛa, Skr. ghaṭa.]
An earthen jar.
1828G. C. Mundy Jrnl. 22 Mar. in Pen & Pencil Sketches (1832) iii. 137 The Rajah sent..sixty gurrahs (earthen vessels holding a gallon) of sugar candy and sweetmeats. 1864J. A. Grant Walk across Africa 41 With a gourd cup they drew water from their wells and filled it into earthen ‘gurahs’, similar to those in India. Ibid. 67 A few earthen jars, made like the Indian ‘gurrah’, for boiling vegetables or their stirabout. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 153 He..had been flung in the dust, like a broken gurrah. |