What is "godown"

Usage examples of "godown".

At the far end of the godown, bronze cylinders were stacked in tiers of different sizes.

If the godown has not yet been destroyed by then- misguided efforts, doubtless sloth has overcome them and only the application of something weighty to their insensitive heads will convince them that they should strive to be worthy, in some part, of their lavish remuneration.

If a little one could tear a large hole in the wall of a godown, what might not its large brother or cousin do to the wooden sides of a ship?

We walk through the godown to the back, where there is a narrow iron stair, and up above the lights he opens a door on a room like a coffin, a little more than a meter high, the same wide.

This is the godown, the space could be huge, but there would have to be an office and from the office an entrance.

He left the knapsack in the weeds, and secreted one short-fused bomb against a rickety godown, the other behind a hovel.

When they reached the alley, thirty yards from him, they stopped in the lee of the godown for a smoke and to relieve themselves.

The fire bomb that Takeda had planted against the far side of the godown detonated.

A few diverted to fight the godown fire, the remainder rushed onwards.

Flames from the blazing godown roof, fanned by the wind, jumped the alley to attack the next line of hovels.

Land the godown blaze was totally out of control, soldiers impotently striving to organize a fire-fighting party to protect abutting dwellings and streets.

My accommodation is unique--a kura, or godown, in a large conventional garden, in which is a bath-house, which receives a hot spring at a temperature of 105 degrees, in which I luxuriate.

What he saw was a half mile of white beach with a fringe of tufted coconut palms leaning seaward, a few canoes hauled up on the beach, a large corrugated iron godown and a small wooden bungalow, painted white with green trimmings and wide, deep verandas, squatted on the low bluff above the beach.

Oil streetlamps along the praia, a few windows glowing in other bungalows and godowns, Drunk Town pulsating as normal throughout the night, the gin shops never totally sleeping.

Suffice it that he did, everything included, the big godowns on the quais, shipping rights, the goodwill, stock and fixtures, and the old compradore, Li Yuan Chang.