dacoit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dacoit
First recorded in 1800–10, dacoit is from the Hindi word ḍakait
Example Sentences
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The Dacoit never fights if he can help it, and then only when driven into a corner, or when there appears a chance of very large plunder.
From With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
He may be a respectable trader, he may be a Dacoit or a Thug.
From The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Dacoit, da-koit′, n. one of a gang of robbers in India and Burma—also Dakoit′.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
There was no doubt that Krauss had spies and tools, and if that was his grey pony "Dacoit," what was "Dacoit" doing in the jungle, thirty miles from Rangoon?
From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)
Just at daybreak there was a distant noise of men moving in the jungle, and the Dacoit halfway down the path fired his gun.
From Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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