Anglo-Indian. Also lathi, latti. [Hindi lāṭhī.] A long heavy stick, usually of bamboo and bound with iron.
1850. Fanny Parks, Wand. Pilgrim, I. xiv. 132. It is a very heavy lāthī, a solid male bamboo, five feet five inches long, headed with iron in a most formidable manner.
1860. W. H. Russell, Diary India, II. 333. Sometimes a peasant runs away with a long lathee or stick over his shoulder.
1878. Life in the Mofussil, I. 114. We came upon about a hundred men … all with latties (long sticks of bamboo) in their hands.
1895. Mrs. B. M. Croker, Village Tales (1896), 187. A man’s body found in a nullah, killed by a sickle or a lathi (heavy stick).
