goont

goont

English

Etymology

Hindi [Term?]

Noun

goont (plural goonts)

1. (India, archaic) A kind of pony of the northern Himalayas.
   • 1846, Sir William Lloyd, ‎George Lloyd, Narrative of a Journey from Caunpoor to the Boorendo Pass (page 202)

     We frequently watched one, and starting fairly, cantered as fast as our goonts would go, to keep up with it; but in vain, it always outstripped us.