bhisti

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English

Noun

bhisti (plural bhistis or bhisties)

  1. Alternative form of bheestie (a traditional water-carrier of South Asia)
    • 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 122:
      He remembered Pam horse-whipping a blackguard of a corporal who was found to have interfered with the bhisti’s sister.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)