- a variation of ghat.
ghaut
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of ghaut
C17 gaot, a mountain pass, from Hindi: ghat
Example Sentences
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In an hour and a half after this, we reached and crossed the river Scend, about two miles from the top of the ghaut.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by John Shipp
I well remember the last time I stood on the heights of Bella Vista, as our ghaut was called, watching the fleet approach of the tapaul, or postman.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
The railway to the docks did not then exist nor the two houses to the south of the ghaut, one of which is occupied by the Conservator of the Port.
From Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century by Montague Massey
The village of Suttee Chowra on the bluff on the left of the ghaut, where Tantia Topee's sepoys were concealed, no longer exists; a pretty bungalow and its compound occupy its site.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
Tantia Topee's dispositions for the perpetration of the treachery could not now succeed, for the Ganges has changed its course and there is deep water close in shore at the ghaut.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
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