Definition of "oont" [oont]

• A camel, especially an attractive camel (noun)

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• "Picking up his big, green turban from beside his rug, I bound his arms to his sides and then, going forth, got baggage-cords from the _oont-wallah_ and likewise his _puggri_, and Moussa Isa bound his feet and hands and knees."
• "He and his best camel and its driver were gone, but all his people and servants and _oont-wallahs_ [27] were in the _serai_, [28] and said they knew not where he was, but had received a _hookum_ [29] over-night to set out that day for Mekran Kot."
• "And in the morning came Abdul Haq and Hussein Ali and the servants and _oont-wallahs_, save a few who had been sent with laden camels by the Caravan Road."