howdah
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
/ˈhaʊdə/
Definition of howdah
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.
“They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.”
“I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.”
“I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.”
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noun
-
A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.
“They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.”
“I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.”
“I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.”
- An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774).
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