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‖ ˈsirki Anglo-Ind.
Also 9 sirky, seerky.
[Hindī sirkī.]
a. The upper part of the culm of a species of tall reed-grass, Saccharum Munjia or Sara, native to India.
b. Matting made of this.
1801Asiatick Researches VII. 463 Hoogla or Sirkee mats. 1810T. Williamson Vade Mecum I. 489 This seerky is composed of the stems of the surput, or tassel grass. Ibid. 490 In India those itinerants [sc. gipsies]..invariably shelter themselves under seerky. 1866Treas. Bot. 1064/1 Sirki. 1886Yule & Burnell Anglo-Ind. Gloss. 666/1 It is from the upper part of the flower-bearing stalk of surkunda that sirky is derived. |