different between churrus vs charrus

English

Alternative forms

• charras
• churus

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi [Term?]

Noun

churrus (uncountable)

1. A narcotic gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

churrus (plural churruses)

1. A device used in India for drawing water from wells

English

Noun

charrus (plural charruses)

1. Alternative form of carrus

Latin

Noun

charrus m (genitive charr?); second declension

1. Alternative form of carrus (“English unit of weight”)
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1, p. 168:

     Another element of weight is the charrus, carecta, or plaustrata of lead. This quantity contained thrity fontinelli, fotmael, pedes, or pigs. Each pes contained five petrae of fourteen pounds each, and therefore the pes was 70 avoirdupois pounds and the charrus 2100 lbs.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• charrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)