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noun

Ghaut, Ghat n.

A pass through a mountain. (India)

A range of mountains.

Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf. (India)

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Etymology of 'Ghaut'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ghaut" Quotes from Famous Books

... all the forenoon, and killed two pariah-dogs, four green parrots, sitting, one kite by the burning-ghaut, one snake flying, one mud-turtle, and eight crows. Game was plentiful. Then we sat down to tiffin—"bull-mate an' bran-bread," Mulvaney called it—by the side of the river, and took pot shots at the crocodiles in the intervals of cutting up the food ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... banks of the Ganges. It had proclaimed itself above the Vedic hymns of the twice-born Brahmins, standing knee-deep in the sacred river; it had dogged his footsteps among the ash-smeared fakirs, and jewel-hung cows; it had even haunted the burning-ghat where he had stood and watched human ...

— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

... meditation: every outline of every attitude, in that clear Indian air, as sharp as if cut with scissors out of paper. And lying close beside, cheek by jowl with the bodies still alive, the ashes of dead bodies just burned or still burning on the Ghat. Life and Death touching, running into one another, and nobody amazed: all as it should be, and a matter ...

— Bubbles of the Foam • Unknown