Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surf-boat in use at Bombay and along the Malabar coast. Also called
bunder-boat . - noun The common rhesus or other East Indian monkey.
- noun A term used in the East for a canard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a type of
surfboat used inIndia - noun a unit of measurement for land area used in the
Low Countries
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Examples
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My Palva bunder (Gateway of India) where I went for evening walks when I was little was battle ground.
Me Mumbaikar Anjali 2008
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His mother came home from the bunder (fish drying fields) and found him sobbing.
Bhurgulyache Ladoo Anjali 2008
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And not when he makes the bunder of screaming “Somebody do something!”
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My parents still live in colaba and have used the army clubSanik rst at 20 pilot bunder road afgan church on many occasions.
I wish these were still around in Bombay Abodh 2006
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Parsis in their square caps; and a various assortment of habitues of the shore -- crimps, landsharks, badmashes {bad characters}, bunder {port} gangs.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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He was the sole survivor of the crew of some dhow or bunder-boat, they said.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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The total amount of surface gained to the agriculture of the Netherlands by diking out the sea and by draining shallow bays and lakes, is estimated by Staring at three hundred and fifty-five thousand bunder or hectares, equal to eight hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred and forty acres, which is one-tenth of the area of the kingdom.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874
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To get rid of this Babel confusion of tongues as soon as possible, we took refuge in the first bunder boat and made for the shore.
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They soon arrived at the Victoria Hotel; and the khidmutgars, carrying the light baggage, were not behind them, though they had run all the way from the bunder.
Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East Oliver Optic 1859
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It was dark before I left camp; and as I was detained a considerable time at the bunder or landing-place, waiting for a boat to take me off to the steamer, it was late in the night when I got on board.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852 Various 1841
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