burning-ghat

noun

A flat area near the top of a river ghat where Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.

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Meanings

nounburning-ghat (plural burning-ghats)

plural burning-ghats

  1. IndiaA flat area near the top of a river ghat where Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre.

    Now, whether I have done thee a wrong in keeping thee from the burning-ghât, do thou and the crows settle together.

    1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 415
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