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Definition of Cutchery
1. n. A hindoo hall of justice.
Definition of Cutchery
1. Noun. (India) A hall used for business, political or social assemblies, such as a magistrate's court, or a building housing public agencies, such as a Secretariat. ¹
2. Noun. A musical performance or style. ¹
3. Noun. A military division or large brigade. ¹
4. Noun. A spice, such as Indonesian kentjoer; or kitchery - an Indian dish of rice boiled with split pulse, onions, eggs, butter, and condiments; also, in European cookery, a dish made of cold fish, boiled rice, eggs, and condiments, served hot (kedgeree). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cutchery
1. a judicial office in India [n -CHERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutchery
Literary usage of Cutchery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 by Sir William Howard Russell (1860)
"The cutchery. —A Bedouin of the Press.—Generals cannot " do the graphic." —Bottled
beer.—Members of our mess.—School of dialectics. ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1893)
"As regards the publication of the notice of sale what the lower Court finds is
this—that it was first stuck up in the cutchery of the ..."
3. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1832)
"This took place not at the cutchery, but at Capt. Dicken- son's own house, at
which time I was at large, but was taken into custody about two or three days ..."
4. Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the by Mark Wilks (1869)
"... these he had a separate cutchery ; besides the business of revenue they were
charged with the provisions and necessaries of the garrison and palace. 12. ..."
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