bhisti

English edit

bhisti (plural bhistis or bhisties)

Alternative form of bheestie (“a traditional water-carrier of South Asia”)
- 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 122:
  He remembered Pam horse-whipping a blackguard of a corporal who was found to have interfered with the bhisti’s sister.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)