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gurmy (plural gurmies)

From Hindi ???? (ga?h?, “fort”).

gurry (plural gurries)

(historical, India) A circular gong that was struck at regular intervals to indicate the time.
(historical, India) The time interval indicated by striking the gurry. Originally, this was twenty-two and a half minutes, but later, under British influence, changed to an hour.
(India) A small fort.

Origin unknown. Attested from the mid-nineteenth century.

gurry (uncountable)

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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