Forms: 7 cajua, cajava, kedg-, cedgeway, 9 kedjavé, kidja-, kha-, kajawah, -web. [Urdū (Pers.) kajāwah; also Pers. kajawah.] A camel-litter for women; a kind of large pannier or wooden frame, a pair of which are carried by a camel.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 151. Women of note travell upon Coozelbash-Camels, each Camell loaded with two Cages (or Cajuaes as they call them) which hang on either side the beast.
1678. J. Phillips, trans. Tavernier’s Trav., I. II. iii. (1684), 63. Fifty Camels that carry’d his Women; their Cajavas being cover’d with Scarlet-cloth.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 309. Others in Kedgways, or Wooden-Houses, one on each side of a Camel, tied like Panniers. Ibid., 394. Nor must they stir abroad unvailed, unless shut up in Cedgewaies, and then well attended.
1783. G. Forster, Journ. fr. Bengal (1798), II. xiv. 93. This pannier, termed in the Persic, kidjahwah, is a wooden frame [etc.].
1849. E. B. Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 160. His left leg was heavily chained to a Kajáwah, or camel-saddle.
1894. R. Kipling, Jungle Bk., 196. The men piled our kajawahs … outside the square.
