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howdah

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈhaʊdə/Part of speech nounSorted adhhowStarts with HEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant

Word origin

From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774).

Used in a sentence

  • 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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