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A small usually spherical water vessel of brass or copper used in India. Also: Burbots.

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Usage examples (11)
  • Somewhere about the end of the third week in January 1857, a khalasi, that is to say a labourer, accosted a high Brahmin sepoy and asked for a drink of water from his...
  • He begged a little milk in a lotah and gave her money for more.
  • Then there's the non-pressurized/jet application of that lotah or pitcher next to the commode or squat hole in other countries.
  • The old man went to a corner of the room, trembling in every limb, and taking a brass lotah from where it was hidden, he went out of the place into the darkness.
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