Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lumbering keelless barge, formerly much used by Europeans traveling on the Gangetic rivers. Yule and Burnell. Also budgero-boat, buggerow-boat.
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Examples
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Company's landing stage was thronged with people awaiting the arrival of the budgero in the hope of getting news from home.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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In the budgero they passed the Dutch factory at Fulta, and the Subah's forts at Budge Budge and Tanna.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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"I was alarmed," says he; "for the Rajah surrounded my budgero with two thousand men: that indicated a hostile disposition."
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Each of us merchants has his own budgero, and instead of putting our men in buttons with our arms and all that nonsense, we give them colored sashes -- and don't our women squabble about the colors, my boy, just don't they! "
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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