gurries

The hour of eleven was ringing from the gurries or gongs at the different guard rooms, as Arthur Carlton left the quarters of the

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_cutwal_, and the zemindars in four purgunnahs are so refractory as to have fortified themselves in their gurries, and to refuse all payments of revenue.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763