Also khedda(h, (kiddah). [Hindī khēdā.] An enclosure used in Bengal, Assam, etc., for the capture of wild elephants; corresp. to the corral of Ceylon.
1799. Corse, in Phil. Trans., LXXXIX. 38. She was driven by Mr. Leeke’s elephant hunters into a keddah.
1827. D. Johnson, Ind. Field Sports, 55. Elephants are numerous…. The principal Keddah for catching them is in the district of Tipperah.
1879. F. Pollok, Sport Brit. Burmah, I. 80. I remember, when kheddahs were started in Burmah, nearly a hundred elephants had been driven into an inclosure.
1889. Daily News, 27 Nov., 5/4. A kheda, or entrenched enclosure, has been formed in the jungle near an elephant cover.
