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  • noun Alternative form of ghat.

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Examples

  • I wrote this, remembering in long, long distant days, such a ghaut, or river-stair, at Calcutta; and a day when, down those steps, to a boat which was in waiting, came two children, whose mothers remained on the shore.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • In one of the stories by the present writer, a man is described tottering “up the steps of the ghaut,” having just parted with his child, whom he is despatching to

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Wasted time deciding on where to go, and going to dhoby ghaut, then back again to city hall, then to pasir ris = X

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005

  • Who knew, Mrs Logan called back when we were at douby ghaut mrt.

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005

  • Got lost in douby ghaut mrt station (don't laugh.)

    yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005

  • In its older, wider, and popular significance the Malabar Coast includes the whole southwest corner of India as far back as the ghaut line.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • 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, and eight crows.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 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, and eight crows.

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The domra who holds the monopoly at the Manikarnika ghaut is one of the richest men in Benares.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • Ganges Valley happily afford him opportunity to soften up the crust of his accumulated transgressions, preparatory to washing them away entirely by a plunge off the Kamnagar ghaut at Benares.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

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  • See ghat.

    May 13, 2010