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China Buckeer
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English
Etymology
Hobson-Jobson (see references) cites Emanuel Forchhammer, in his Notes on the Early History and Geography of British Burma (page 16), stating that the country between Rangoon and Bassein, i.e. on the west of the Rangoon River, bore the name of Pokhara, of which Buckeer was a corruption.
Proper noun
1
en obsolete One of the chief delta mouths of the Irrawaddy river.
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