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Definition of Barkhan
1. a crescent-shaped sand dune [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barkhan
Literary usage of Barkhan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"... preferred to make a straight course for the barkhan Plain via Tri Kuram, ...
joining on to the Lugari barkhan Plains, run along the eastern foot of the ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"At the time of my journey the barkhan crossed a well-beaten track which ...
This removal of an entire barkhan across a wide shor in one mass without ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"This marshy plain is bounded on the south by the barkhan Budda range of mountains,
the extent of which, from the foot to the chief axis of the range, ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. by William Wilson Hunter, Great Britain India Office (1908)
"In the Leghari-barkhan circle, one-third of the revenue levied is paid to the
... barkhan rugs are well-known, but have recently deteriorated in quality. ..."
5. The History of Bahawalpur: With Notices of the Adjacent Countries of Sindh by Shahāmat ʻAlī (1848)
"Native reports mention that at the distance of a short day's journey from barkhan,
is a Darra or mountain-pass, conducting by a direct road through Ghazni ..."
6. The Worship of Augustus Caesar: Derived from a Study of Coins, Monuments by Alexander Del Mar (1899)
"Aera of barkhan or Buddha, who was born in Tartary. A Jovian date. BC 959,
Tibet.—Aera of Fod, who was born in Tibet. Cas- sini, Asiat. Res., II, 27. ..."
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