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Dacoit

noun
(Also spelled dakoit)
1.
A member of an armed gang of robbers.  Synonym: dakoit.






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"Dacoit" Quotes from Famous Books



... from Burma, me an' four-an'-twenty young wans undher a Lift'nint Brazenose was ruinin' our dijeshins thryin' to catch dacoits. An' such double-ended divils I niver knew! 'Tis only a dah an' a Snider that makes a dacoit. Widout thim, he's a paceful cultivator, an' felony for to shoot. We hunted, an' we hunted, an' tuk fever an' elephints now an' again; but no dacoits. Evenshually, we puckarowed wan man. "Trate him tinderly," sez the Lift'nint. So I tuk him away into the jungle, wid the Burmese ...
— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Dacoit" :   India, Republic of India, thief, Union of Burma, stealer, Bharat, Burma, dakoit, Myanmar



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