▪ I. ‖ gurrah1 Anglo-Indian.
(ˈgʌrə)
[Hindi gāṛhā.]
A kind of plain coarse India muslin.
| 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxxii. 393 These manufactories are of..Silk, and Silk and Cotton Romals, Gurrahs and Lungies. 1858 in Simmonds Dict. Trade. |
▪ II. gurrah2
(ˈgʌrə)
Also gurah.
[Hind. ghaṛa, Skr. ghaṭa.]
An earthen jar.
| 1828 G. C. Mundy Jrnl. 22 Mar. in Pen & Pencil Sketches (1832) iii. 137 The Rajah sent..sixty gurrahs (earthen vessels holding a gallon) of sugar candy and sweetmeats. 1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Africa 41 With a gourd cup they drew water from their wells and filled it into earthen ‘gurahs’, similar to those in India. Ibid. 67 A few earthen jars, made like the Indian ‘gurrah’, for boiling vegetables or their stirabout. 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 153 He..had been flung in the dust, like a broken gurrah. |