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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In India, a large pool, mere, or lagoon of standing water remaining after inundation, and more or less filled with rank vegetation.

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  • noun Alternative form of jheel.

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Examples

  • Bourchier's battery coming up in the nick of time, the hostile guns were soon silenced, and Gough, having succeeded in getting through the _jhil_, made a most plucky charge, in which he captured two guns and killed a number of the enemy.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • This force left Delhi on the 24th August, and proceeded in the direction of the Najafgarh _jhil_.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Here and there the party had to ford a jhil -- an extensive shallow lake formed by the rains.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Graves's brigade, having passed round the _jhil_, [8] appeared on the enemy's right rear, while Grant with his Cavalry and

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • By daylight, and with the aid of a compass, which I always carried about me, I should have had little difficulty, even though the country we had to get over was intersected by ravines and water-courses, not to speak of the uncompromising _jhil_ near the Jalalabad fort.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • The Phulchudder aqueduct, which carried the canal water into the city, and along which horsemen could pass to the rear of our camp, was blown up, as was also the Bussye bridge over the drain from the Najafgarh _jhil_, about eight miles from camp.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Between this range and the hills, which form the southern boundary of Kohistan, lay a lake, or rather _jhil_, a barrier between which and the commanding Bimaru ridge no enemy would dare to advance.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • There was another _jhil_ to our left front, but at some little distance off, and our only chance seemed to be in riding hard enough to get round the enemy's flank before they could get close enough to this _jhil_ to stop us.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Fortunately for us, we had made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the country the previous day, and instantly realized that escape by our right (as we faced Lucknow) was impossible, because of a huge impassable _jhil_.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • In the eyes of the Englishman December in Northern India is a month of halcyon days, of days dedicated to sport under perfect climatic conditions, of bright sparkling days spent at the duck tank, at the snipe _jhil_, in the _sal_ forest, or among the Siwaliks, days on which office files rest in peace, and the gun, the rifle and the rod are made to justify their existence.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

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