Crossword-Solution: PUCKA 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

She was always "a worm" when asked after her health, and everything that pleased her was "pucka." She knew no language but her own, and that she spoke indifferently, her command of it being limited for the most part to slang expressions, which are the scum of language; and a few stock phrases of polite quality for special occasions.

The pucka houses are ungainly structures, the height being out of all proportion to the width, the walls are very thick, and composed of slate slabs, the roof is choppered with projecting eaves, the windows are very narrow.

Seikh troops in large numbers are cantoned round to the east and south- east skirts of the town, in low pucka barracks.

Kussoor is a large well-built town, consisting of three separate parts, each surrounded by a _pucka_ wall furnished with bastions: these three parts are at some distance from each other.

This supposes there are either nullahs, or ancient pucka wells, otherwise the canes are allowed to take their chance, for the cost of making a well on the uplands is from ten to twenty rupees--an expense too heavy for an individual cultivator, and not many would dig in partnership, for they would fight for the water.