Lexicographical Neighbors of Pakka
Literary usage of Pakka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the revision of settlement of the Pánipat tahsil & Karnál parganah by Denzil Charles J. Ibbetson (1883)
"Close to the towns the villagers often use pakka weights and measures ...
But prices are always quoted in pakka weights. Thus when a villager says his field ..."
2. Final Report on the Revision of Settlement of the Sirsá District in the Punjáb by J. Wilson, Sir James Wilson (1884)
"... villages liave no well; and while at last Settlement there were only 23 pakka
wells there nre now 86 ; the increase represents about two years' revenue. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"One of the words that are oftenest in the mouths of Anglo-Indians, is the
adjective " pakka," of which the primitive meaning seems to be the antithesis to ..."
4. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores, and Adapting Them by John Percy (1864)
"The pakka iron is made in a furnace of a different description, from which it
comes as a species of crude steel : it is cut in pieces, re-heated and ..."
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