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chattee

chattee noun: a clay pot for holding water.

Noun

chattee (plural chattees)

  1. (India) A clay pot for holding water.
    • In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage, which contains a little green parrot.1868, Mary Eliza Frère, Old Deccan Days, page 14

chattee meaning in Tamil

chattee in Tamil

chattee, earthen vessel, pan, pot
சட்டி caṭṭi

Forms of chattee

pluralchattees
alternative formchatti
alternative formchattie
alternative formchatty

Origin of chattee

Probably from Tamil சட்டி (caṭṭi), from Proto-South Dravidian *caṭṭi.

Questions about chattee

What does chattee mean?
Chattee means a clay pot for holding water.
What is chattee in Tamil?
Chattee in Tamil is சட்டி (caṭṭi). See Chattee meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chattee?
Chattee is a noun.
What is the plural of chattee?
The plural of chattee is chattees.

Words near chattee in the dictionary

  1. chatted
  2. chatted away
  3. chatted shit
  4. chatted shite
  5. chatted up
  6. chattee
  7. chattees
  8. chattel
  9. chattel house
  10. chattel houses
  11. chattel paper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chattee (page history and authors); சட்டி (Tamil) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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