What is "keddah"

Usage examples of "keddah".

But the really good time came when the driving out began, and the Keddah, that is, the stockade, looked like a picture of the end of the world, and men had to make signs to one another, because they could not hear themselves speak.

He was the head of all the Keddah operations -- the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India, and who knew more about the ways of elephants than any living man.

The catchers, and hunters, and beaters, the men of the regular Keddah, who stayed in the jungle year in and year out, sat on the back of the elephants that belonged to Petersen Sahib's permanent force, or leaned against the trees with their guns across their arms, and made fun of the drivers who were going away, and laughed when the newly caught elephants broke the line and ran about.

He went into the Keddah at the last drive, and threw Barmac there the rope, when we were trying to get that young calf with the blotch on his shoulder away from his mother.

In a Keddah at least there was torch-light and shouting, but here he was all alone in the dark, and once a trunk came up and touched him on the knee.

He shall take no harm in the Keddah when he runs under their bellies to rope the wild tuskers.

He was the head of all the Keddah operations—the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India, and who knew more about the ways of elephants than any living man.

The catchers, and hunters, and beaters, the men of the regular Keddah, who stayed in the Jungle year in and year out, sat on the backs of the elephants that belonged to Petersen Sahib's permanent force, or leaned against the trees with their guns across their arms, and made fun of the drivers who were going away, and laughed when the newly caught elephants broke the line and ran about.

He went into the Keddah at the last drive, and threw Barmao there the rope when we were trying to get that young calf with the blotch on his shoulder away from his mother.