roko

Beside the mode before-mentioned of enjoying the flavour of tobacco it is also smoked by the natives and for this use -- after shredding it fine whilst green and drying it well it is rolled up in the thin leaves of a tree, and is in that form called roko, a word they appear to have borrowed from the Dutch.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

At Mudigonda, when about one thousand poor people were conducting rasta roko, a circle inspector and another sub inspector of police entered into arguments with the agitators, demanding them to give up raasta roko and threatened them of resorting to lathicharge.

Mowing Down Peaceful Agitators Abhay N 2007

Kamba: mukenea, mukanu (Kitui) Kambe: mdungu Luoi roko

Chapter 7 1999

He turned to his newspaper in which a Bombay "rail roko" demonstration was being broken up by police lathicharges.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

They had plenty of amusements; fruit was abundant, and they had taken quite a taste for the coarse country tobacco, which many of the soldiers smoked after the Malay fashion, rolled up a la cigarette in the roko, or outer sheath of the palm leaf or the plantain.

Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

Slamming the alleged comments of the ministers, TRS leaders and workers organised 'rasta roko' in Medak, Warangal, Karimnagar and other districts in the region.

Daily News & Analysis 2010

During the period of naxal attacks, bandhs and rail roko, running of trains is badly affected.

The Times of India 2010

'Mahangai roko ya gaddi chodo' (stop the inflation or quit) is the slogan that party leader Sushma Swaraj has given for this mass agitation.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Later the protesters organized a rasta roko at Ambedkar cross roads near collectorate for some time.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Later the protesters organized a rasta roko at Ambedkar cross roads near collectorate for some time.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010