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Definition of Lotah
1. a small water vessel used in India [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lotah
Literary usage of Lotah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pages from an Adventurous Life by Joyce Emmerson Muddock (1907)
"I therefore took from my pocket five rupees, placed them on the ground, told the
natives to send one of their number with a lotah of milk and a lotah of ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"A lotah is not a little dish or plate, but a drinking vessel. ... With a string
round its neck, the lotah is often let down into a well, and, ..."
3. A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-58 by John William Kaye (1875)
"A lotah is a metal drinking-vessel, which he religiously guards against defilement,
and which he holds as a cherished possession when he has nothing else ..."
4. Through the Mutiny: Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Active Service and Sport by Thomas Nicholls Walker (1907)
"On another day's march, at the half-way halt, one of the sepoys, a recruit,
dropped his lotah," a brass drinking-vessel, down a well when drawing water. ..."
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