Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dak"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][=a]k.]
Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt
also {dawk}, and {dauk}. [India]
{Dak boat}, a mail boat. --Percy Smith.
{Dak bungalow}, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak
stage.
{To travel by dak}, to travel by relays of palanquins or
other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dak
n : East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion
velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye [syn: {dhak},
{palas}, {Butea frondosa}, {Butea monosperma}]
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