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jaggery

Part of speech: Noun

The Indian name for a kind of coarse dark sugar, obtained from the juice of palms and the sugar- cane- often used to mix with lime to form a cement.

Usage examples "jaggery":

He had never forgiven Mrs. Agar the insults she heaped upon his head in the drawing- room of Jaggery House. - "From One Generation to Another", Henry Seton Merriman.
They had to do it very quietly indeed with Mrs. Agar, who endeavoured strenuously to get the best value for her money all through life; a remnant of Jaggery House, Clapham Common, which the placid wealth of Stagholme never obliterated. - "From One Generation to Another", Henry Seton Merriman.
In some parts of India it is customary, in dealing with offenders, to stop their allowance of sugar canes or of jaggery; or to restrain them from eating their own share of fodder and leaves till their companions shall have finished; and in such cases the consciousness of degradation betrayed by the looks and attitudes of the culprit is quite sufficient to identify him, and to excite a feeling of sympathy and pity. - "Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon", J. Emerson Tennent.