Definitions for keddah

keddah ked·dah

Spelling: [ked-uh]
IPA: /ˈkɛd ə/

Keddah is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in keddah (addehk).

Definitions for keddah

noun

  1. kheda.
  2. (in India) an enclosure constructed to ensnare wild elephants.

Origin of keddah

Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1790-1800

Examples for keddah

To the bearer he added: "Bring my 8-bore and plenty of ball cartridges to the keddah."

In seconds the keddah sahib's dogcart swirled into view; he reined up, throwing his horse almost on his haunches.

Ten years afterward the old keeper of the elephant found him in a keddah, and he instantly submitted himself to him.

They knew nothing of its whereabouts; all denied that they had seen the keddah sahib put it in the box.

Each one understood the debasing retribution the keddah sahib had meted out to his foul-fighting opponent.

The natives of keddah say that this insect appears at intervals of two, three, or more years.

What taught her that she'd be safe with her calf in the keddah I don't know; where she came from I don't know.

The Betta Kurumbas are, I am told, excellent elephant mahauts (drivers), and very useful at keddah (elephant-catching) operations.

Is the family of Toomai of the Elephants to be trodden underfoot in the dirt of a keddah?

They saw the keddah sahib towering above the fighting mob, his spread arms raised as if exhorting them to desist from strife.

Word Value for keddah
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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