Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghaut
Literary usage of Ghaut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1861)
"It has been compulsory to adopt the same maximum gradient of 1 in 37 along a
portion of both inclines, yet at the Thul ghaut we have been able to flatten ..."
2. The Asiatic Annual Register: Or, A View of the History of Hindustan, and of edited by Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel (1809)
"The ghaut is a carriage road, and no very great descent ; here begins ...
this ghaut is called by travellers estimating by the fatigue of ascent 1^ coss ..."
3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund, Edward Byles Cowell, Frederick William Thomas (1864)
"... and root up the power of the Khodadad (the Kingdom of Mysore,) and the conquest
of the Forts and Towns of the Bala- ghaut. Also, the Battles fought ..."
4. The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with (1845)
"The ship being ready for sea the ghaut Serang is employed to ship a crew, ...
The crew having come on board, the ghaut Serang receives six months advance of ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"We shot all the forenoon, and killed two pariah- dogs, four green parrots sitting,
one kite by the burning-ghaut, one snake flying, one mud-turtle, ..."
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