Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the East Indies, a sort of bamboo pole or yoke carried on a person's shoulder with a load suspended at each end. Hence A parcel-post; a carrier.
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Examples
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To avoid this, on the following Sunday the child's maternal uncle makes a banghy, which is carried across the shoulders like a large pair of scales, and weighs the child in it against cowdung.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Rehenneko, strong enough for tent and banghy poles; and in numbers sufficient to supply an army.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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He then takes the banghy and deposits it at cross-roads outside the village.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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When begging, they carry a _kawar_ or banghy, holding two baskets covered with cloth, and into this they put all their alms.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Such a shattering of the joints, such a vibration of the vertebræ, such a churning of the viscera, I had not felt since travelling by banghy-cart in India.
Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851
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