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decoit

decoit is the alternative form of dacoit.

Meaning of dacoit

Noun

dacoit (plural dacoits)

  1. (India, Myanmar, Pakistan) A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
    • […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok

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Forms of decoit

pluraldecoits

Questions about decoit

What is decoit the alternative form of?
Decoit is the alternative form of dacoit.

Words near decoit in the dictionary

  1. decoheres
  2. decohering
  3. decohesion
  4. decoic acid
  5. decoiling
  6. decoit
  7. decoities
  8. decoits
  9. decoity
  10. decoke
  11. decoked

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