Pucka

Perhaps in Japan he says pucka, but that is the same discussion as the sounds ducks make: ❋ Unknown (2007)

He suspected the pucka lees were still back with the baggage, which would mean a three-mile walk and, by the time he had found them, the battalion would have slaked its thirst from the wells in the village. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

The metal hissed and steamed, and sweating pucka lees hurried up the battery road with yet more skins of water to replenish the great vats. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

The pucka lees were bringing water which they poured into great wooden tubs. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

So Sharpe had a servant, a battle had been won, and now he walked south in search of pucka lees. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

The northern face of the ravine, which looked towards the unconquered Inner Fort, was now crowded with some three thousand redcoats, most of whom did nothing but sit in whatever small shade they could find and grumble that the pucka lees had not fetched water. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

Sharpe glanced behind, hoping to see the pucka lees who brought the battalion water, but there was no sign of them. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)

To make sheet lead, the manufacturer mixes 1½ to 3 seers of block tin with a pucka maund of lead, and melts them together in a cast metal pan. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Roopur is a largish town, with a Seikh pucka fort on a mound. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

This after distillation is placed in a carboy of glass, and is exposed to the sun for several days to become pucka ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

-- Proceeded six and a half miles to near the ruins of an old tope; first, down the nullah, then by the fort of Futtygurh, a Hindoostanee mud fort with high parapets, two lines of works, and a _pucka_ citadel with embrasures for guns on a commanding mound: thence we passed over a gentle slope with a good many scattered _Bheirs_, _Kureels_, AErua, Mudar, etc. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

She was always "a worm" when asked after her health, and everything that pleased her was "pucka." ❋ Madame Sarah Grand (N/A)

_Pucka_, or burnt bricks are common among the debris, also pottery, but this is of the ordinary sort: I observed but few _pucka_ bricks in the fortification on the west side. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

I have, in a former report, asserted that the minimum return of tea for an acre of land may be estimated at 1 pucka maund, or 80 lb. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

-- I walked this morning to a village, a mile to the west, in which there is a picturesque pucka house of religion. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

This supposes there are either nullahs, or ancient pucka wells, otherwise the canes are allowed to take their chance, for the cost of making a well on the uplands is from ten to twenty rupees -- an expense too heavy for an individual cultivator, and not many would dig in partnership, for they would fight for the water. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

-- To-day was occupied by moving up into the village, in which we occupy a pucka house. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

The pucka houses are ungainly structures, the height being out of all proportion to the width, the walls are very thick, and composed of slate slabs, the roof is choppered with projecting eaves, the windows are very narrow. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

Seikh troops in large numbers are cantoned round to the east and south - east skirts of the town, in low pucka barracks. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

Kussoor is a large well-built town, consisting of three separate parts, each surrounded by a _pucka_ wall furnished with bastions: these three parts are at some distance from each other. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)