English

Alternative forms

• puttie
• putty

Noun

puttee ‎(plural puttees)

1. A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 113:

     he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.

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References

• McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford university press. 1993
• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.
• Cappeller, Carl A Sanskrit-English dictionary Bostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.