different between khoonkie vs koomkie
khoonkie
English
Noun
khoonkie (plural khoonkies)
- Alternative form of koomkie
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koomkie
English
Alternative forms
- coomkee, khoonkie, koomkee, koonkie
Etymology
From Bengali. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation
Noun
koomkie (plural koomkies)
- A tame female elephant used as a decoy in the capture of wild male elephants.
- 1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,
- Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.
- 1834, Frederic Shoberl, Natural History of Quadrupeds, Volume 1, page 213,
- The drivers remain concealed at a little distance, while the koomkies surround the goondah, as this sort of elephant is called.
- 1881, Edmund Routledge, Routledge?s Every Boy?s Annual, page 486,
- The hunters rode out on their koomkies, supplied with ropes, and other apparatus, for securing their captives.
- 1957, The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 112, page 505,
- With the aid of koomkies, the captives were driven in batches of three or four into a circular stockade […]
- 1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,
See also
- saun
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