keddah
Britishnoun
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Or to be shut up in a Keddah," muttered Hathi—"it's awful.
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Not by that name knew I it, Sa'-zada; they called it a Keddah, as I found out.
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Once in a land of many pigs, I worked for days and days in that part of the Jungle bending down small trees, and arranging the creepers until I had a keddah with two long sides running far out into the Jungle.
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But the really good time came when the driving out began, and the Keddah, that is, the stockade, looked like a picture of the end of the world, and men had to make signs to one another, because they could not hear themselves speak.
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In a Keddah at least there was torch-light and shouting, but here he was all alone in the dark, and once a trunk came up and touched him on the knee.
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