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ayakuts

ayakuts is the plural of ayakut.

Meaning of ayakut

Noun

ayakut (countable and uncountable, plural ayakuts)

  1. (historical) A tax or water rate imposed by the British on farmers in India during the British colonial period for using water from wells, canals, or other water sources.
    • The only addition I have to make is that the supplemental and ayakut wells do not appear to have been sufficiently differentiated and I would urge the extension of the former in all places where the supply to tanks is at all precarious.1902, H.E. Clerk, Preliminary Report on the Investigation of Protective Irrigation Works and on Irrigation Under Wells in the Madras Presidency, page 30

Questions about ayakuts

What is ayakuts the plural of?
Ayakuts is the plural of ayakut.

Words near ayakuts in the dictionary

  1. Ayajuthem
  2. Ayaka
  3. Ayakawa
  4. Ayako
  5. ayakut
  6. ayakuts
  7. Ayala
  8. Ayala Alabang
  9. Ayalas
  10. Ayam
  11. ayam buah keluak

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