hathi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

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noun

Indian usage; Obsolete

"We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak. Elephints a-pilin' teak"
"the Hathi is a wily animal , and will face fire and steel rather than what he suspects to be a trap"
"Here were we, jampacked on a narrow track down which the hathi was certain to come if he came at all , not a fire - iron of any sort among the lot of us, to all appearances not a vestige of an escape on either side"

Borrowed from Hindi हाथी (hāthī).

hathis (plural) hatty (alternative)

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