[Anglo-Ind. ad. Tamil Aṉai-kaṭṭu dam-building.] ‘In the Madras Presidency, the dam constructed across a river to fill, and regulate the supply of, the channels drawn off from it.’ (Col. Yule.)
1784. Desp. Crt. Direct., in Burke’s Wks., IV. 104. A supply of water … which can only be secured by keeping the Anicut and banks in repair.
1862. R. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 208. Vast dams or annicuts across the rivers take the place of the canals of the northern provinces.
