Chapter DABUL to DAGBAIL of D by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

themselves. …”—MS. Letter of 3d June, from Cassumbazar Factory, in India Office.

1683.—“Chuttermull and Deepchund, two Cassumbazar merchants this day assured me Mr. Charnock give out all his new Sicca Rupees for Dadny at 2 per cent., and never gives the Company credit for more than 1¼ rupee—by which he gains and putts in his own pocket Rupees m per cent. of all the money he pays, which amounts to a great Summe in ye Yeare: at least £1,000 sterling.”—Hedges, Diary, Oct. 2; [Hak. Soc. i. 121, also see i. 83].

1748.—“The Sets being all present at the Board inform us that last year they dissented to the employment of Fillick Chund, Gosserain, Occore, and Otteram, they being of a different caste, and consequently they could not do business with them, upon which they refused Dadney, and having the same objection to make this year, they propose taking their shares of the Dadney.”—Ft. William Cons., May 23. In Long, p. 9.

1772.—“I observe that the Court of Directors have ordered the gomastahs to be withdrawn, and the investment to be provided by Dadney merchants.”—Warren Hastings to J. Purling, in Gleig, i. 227.

DAGBAIL, s.Hind. from Pers. dagh-i-bel, ‘spade-mark.’ The line dug to trace out on the ground a camp, or a road or other construction. As the central line of a road, canal, or rail-road it is the equivalent of English ‘lockspit.’