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Dak   Listen
noun
Dak  n.  Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; spelt also dawk, and dauk. (India)
Dak boat, a mail boat.
Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage.
To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.






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"Dak" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not find men to suit me farther on my road without involving myself in the liability of supporting the entire population I left behind me. I made only one exception. I was sitting one fine day in my room at the Dak Bungalow (post resting-house) when an odd creature entered and offered ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... want an 'urgent,' care of the Station-master, to catch me at Lahore to-morrow night, and another at Thung dak bungalow next day; unless . . . of course ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... lasts from March to June, and some birds at any rate must have two broods, since I found three fresh eggs in the wall of the Pownda dak bungalow about the 20th June. More eggs are, however, to be got in April than ...
— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume



Words linked to "Dak" :   palas, Butea monosperma, Butea frondosa, Butea, genus Butea, dhak, tree



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