jantu

jantu (plural not attested)

1. (archaic) An ancient Indian machine used to raise water to irrigate land.

• Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Jantu”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
• “jantu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• jaunt, junta

Inherited from Assamese জন্তু (zontu).

jantu

1. animal

jantu m

1. creature; living being