Grasscutter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The cane rat.
  2. 2
    A native employed in India to bring grass for horses. British, India
  3. 3
    Synonym of worm burner (“a hard-hit ground ball”).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From grass + cutter.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a corruption of Hindi घासखाटा (ghāskhāṭā, literally “cutter of grass”) or Hindi घासखोदा (ghāskhodā, literally “digger of grass”). From घास (ghās, “grass”) and काटना (kāṭnā, “to cut”) or खोदना (khodnā, “to dig”)

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