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• dak
  dak

  noun

  transportation by relays of people or horses, especially in the East Indies.
• Dak.
  Dak.

  abbreviation

  Dakota.

dak

¹ American  

[dawk, dahk] / dɔk, dɑk /

Or dauk

noun

1. transportation by relays of people or horses, especially in the East Indies.

2. mail delivered by such transportation.

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Dak. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Dakota.

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dak ¹ British  

/ dɑːk, dɔːk /

noun

1. 1. a system of mail delivery or passenger transport by relays of bearers or horses stationed at intervals along a route

   2. ( as modifier )

      dak bearers

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Dak. ² British  

abbreviation

1. Dakota

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Etymology

Origin of dak

First recorded in 1820–30, dak is from the Hindi word ḍāk

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Example Sentences

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dak Dak.

Or you could take your enchiladas as cooked by Shiku in Los Angeles for a special last winter, beneath a guajillo and ancho chili dak galbi sauce and perilla salsa.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

Ultimately it was over dak galbi in Koreatown that they two would finally meet, in October, the first of many meals together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2016

The stew, dak jjim, is just a few ingredients, including Korean red chile flakes, but oh, what a sight — and oh, what a mom!

From Washington Post

I want an 'urgent,' care of the Station-master, to catch me at Lahore to-morrow night, and another at Thung dak bungalow next day; unless . . . of course .

From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver

Leaving his baggage at the dak bungalow, he strolled afoot to the large and handsome mansion indicated.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle

“Our ability to score runs right now is not very good. You get a good start out of Dak. You get an opportunity there at the end. It’s obviously frustrating.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2022

“Absolutely not. He's our future. He's special. If anyone can overcome anything it will be Dak. It's something our doctors feel like he'll overcome, and he'll come back better than ever.”

From Fox News ● Oct. 13, 2020

He is a Rhodes Scholar who served S. Dak. honorably in Congress for years.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014

Homestake has been spending $270 per oz. to dig gold from a Lead, S. Dak., mine that it opened in 1876.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wisc. to Dak., and south to Tex. and Mex.—Glumes obscurely if at all papillose along the keel, the middle lobe of the flowering one 2-cleft at the tip.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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