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gour

noun — 3 senses

gour

noun
1

Dated Dated form of gaur (“Asian wild bovine”).

gour

noun

Etymology From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gurges.

1

A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.

gour

noun
1

India, Obsolete The head man of a village in the Canarese-speaking country.

  • Every Tehsildary is farmed out in villages to the Gours or head-men.c. 1800, Munro's Life, iii. 92

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