Jat

[ jaht, jawt ]

/ dʒɑt, dʒɔt /

noun

a member of an Indo-Aryan people living mainly in northwestern India. In early times they offered vigorous resistance to the Muslim invaders of India.

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Examples from the Web for jat

It was a tin box of opium pills among the rubbish of the Jat's bundle.
Kim|Rudyard Kipling
Though standing in the midst of a Jat neighbourhood, the fort was first garrisoned by Gujars, and took the name of Gujrat.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6|Various
The people lived chiefly on holcus, and a narcotic called "jat," made by pounding the tender twigs of a tree of the same name.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton|Thomas Wright
Why, they did it even to the twice-born Brahmans, let alone a Jat.
Strange Stories|Grant Allen

The Jat burst into a roar of laughter, stifled with apologies to the lama.
Kim|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for jat

Jat

/ (dʒɑːt) /

noun plural Jat or Jats

a member of an Indo-European people widely dispersed throughout N India

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