See Also: Maratha confederacy(encyclopedia)
Maratha(dictionary)
Maratha Wars(encyclopedia)
confederacy(dictionary)
Confederacy, the(dictionary)
confederacy(dictionary)
Confederacy (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Iroquois Confederacy(encyclopedia)
Maravi confederacy(encyclopedia)
CONFEDERACY, crim(law)

rickety (iou) and Maratha confederacy (sh)


rickety (iou)



rickety adjective. Also ricketty. L17.
[from RICKET(S + -Y1.]
Affected by or suffering from rickets; subject to rickets. L17.
b. Of the Nature of or pertaining to rickets; rachitic. E19.
rickety rosary a line of swellings on either side of the chest, reminiscent of a string of beads and symptomatic of rickets.
Unsafe in construction, likely to collapse; unsteady; (of the mind etc.) feeble, lacking firmness. M18.
J. L. Waten Three rickety wooden chairs, the legs tied with wire.
ricketily adverb M19.
ricketiness noun the condition of being rickety M19.

Maratha confederacy (sh)




Maratha alliance formed in the 18th century in western India after Shivaji's Maratha kingdom collapsed under Mughal pressure.

Under Shivaji's grandson, power fell to peshwas (chief ministers) from leading Maratha Families, who ruled effectively in the early 18th century but quarreled as the century waned. The confederacy fell to the British in 1818.