Also 9 khookheri, kookaree, -eree, -i(e, -y, kookree, -i(e, kukrie, kukeri, kukkri, koukri. [Hindī kukṛī.] A curved knife, broader at the point than at the handle, and usually having the keen edge on the concave side, used by the Gorkhas of India.
1811. Kirkpatrick, Nepaul, v. 118. The dagger, or knife, worn by every Nepaulian, and called Khookheri.
1832. Mundy, Pen & Pencil Sk., I. 197. Arming himself with a kookaree or mountain dagger.
1859. J. Lang, Wand. India, 312. By the side of him knelt the little Goorkha, armed with the kookeree.
1884. A. Forbes, in Pall Mall Gaz., 19 March, 1/2. The Ghoorka kukrie, the American bowie knife, or any other kindred instrument.
1897. Ld. Roberts, 41 Yrs. India, lxviii. (1898), 538. The Maharaja gave me a gold-mounted kookri.
