chunam

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A type of plaster used in India, made from shell-lime and sand.
 * 2) * 1808–1810, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 226:
 * The one Mr Cleveland and I inhabited was, as I have already observed, constructed of mud instead of chunam.

Verb

 * 1)  To plaster or waterproof with chunam.
 * 2) * The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 8 March 1848
 * A PUNT FOR SALE, thirty-four feet long, twelve feet broad, and three feet ten inches deep, chunamed, sheathed, and coppered, carries about fifteen tons.