Saur vs Saun - What's the difference?
saur | saun |
(UK, dialect) soil; dirt
(UK, dialect) dirty water
(UK, dialect) urine from a cowhouse
(Webster 1913)
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A male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.
* 1810 , Decoy Elephants Catching a Male'', in Enos Bronson (editor), ''Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines , Volume 3,
As nouns the difference between saur and saun
is that saur is soil; dirt while saun is a male elephant not part of a herd; a rogue.saur
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(en noun)page 123,
- Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies'' up to the ''saun''''', yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the ''koomkies'' to the '''''saun , towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.