bhusa

From Chanda a different set of subcastes is reported called Bhusarjin, Ladjin, Saojin and Kanhejin; the first may take their name from _bhusa_, the chaff of wheat, while

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The message ran then: -- "A widow dhak flower and bhusa -- at eleven o'clock."

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

In the packet was the half of a broken glass bangle, one flower of the blood red dhak, a pinch of bhusa or cattle-food, and eleven cardamoms.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

He saw -- this kind of letter leaves much to instinctive knowledge -- that the bhusa referred to the big heap of cattle-food over which he had fallen in Amir Nath's Gully, and that the message must come from the person behind the grating; she being a widow.

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

So the message ran then: -- "A widow, in the Gully in which is the heap of bhusa, desires you to come at eleven o'clock."

Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

In the packet was the half of a broken glass-bangle, one flower of the blood-red _dhak_, a pinch of _bhusa_ or cattle-food, and eleven cardamoms.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

He saw -- this kind of letter leaves much to instinctive knowledge -- that the _bhusa_ referred to the big heap of cattle-food over which he had fallen in Amir Nath's Gully, and that the message must come from the person behind the grating; she being a widow.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

-- (From _bhusa_, fodder, one who supplies fodder.)

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

_bhusa_, [4] within reach of the ambulance; his bugler following close at their heels.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906