Chapter BANDICOY to BANGY of B by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

bearers to carry my palankeen. Besides these I had four banghy-burdars, men who are each obliged to carry forty pound weight, in small wooden or tin boxes, called petarrahs.”—Traveller’s account, Carey, Good Old Days, ii. 91.]

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c. 1844.—“I will forward with this by bhangy dûk a copy of Capt. Moresby’s Survey of the Red Sea.”—Sir G. Arthur, in Ind. Admin. of Lord Ellenborough, p. 221.

1873.—“The officers of his regiment…subscribed to buy the young people a set of crockery, and a plated tea and coffee service (got up by dawk banghee…at not much more than 200 per cent. in advance of the English price.”—The True Reformer, i. 57.