cutcherry

Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labour of cutcherry, and the refreshment of brandy-pawnee which he was forced to take there, had their effect upon Waterloo Sedley.

Vanity Fair 2006

He went to the cutcherry and enrolled himself as a _muktear_ (attorney) and soon the litigants and the magistrates found out how clever he was and he acquired a big practice.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

Plenty of witnesses were forthcoming to give evidence against them; such can be purchased outside any cutcherry in India for a few rupees.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

I first met him driving home from cutcherry in his buggy.

Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864

The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.

Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864

Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labour of cutcherry, and the refreshment of brandy-pawnee which he was forced to take there, had their effect upon Waterloo Sedley.

Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

-- Since the first edition was published, I have been told by a late officer of the Ceylon Government, that many years ago, what remained of the Dutch records were removed from the record-room of the Colonial Office to the cutcherry of the government agent of the western province: where some of them may still be found.]

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836