bant

In some of these old settlements there are houses where the door is still opened from without by a "sneck-bant," or "finger-hole."

Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.

Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.

The foregoing account shows that the Bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.

A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.