Jat
[jaht, jawt]
- 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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From this we conclude—hypothetically—that the Jat warriors were supplemented by other tribes.
Gipsy LifeGeorge Smith
Why, they did it even to the twice-born Brahmans, let alone a Jat.
Strange StoriesGrant Allen
The Jat burst into a roar of laughter, stifled with apologies to the lama.
KimRudyard Kipling
It was a tin box of opium pills among the rubbish of the Jat's bundle.
KimRudyard Kipling
Though standing in the midst of a Jat neighbourhood, the fort was first garrisoned by Gujars, and took the name of Gujrat.
Jat
- a member of an Indo-European people widely dispersed throughout N India
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