noun. A broad flight of steps leading down to the bank of a river in India, used especially by bathers.

noun. In India, a pass of descent from a mountain; a mountain-pass; hence, a range or chain of hills or mountains.

noun. In India, a path of descent, landing-place, or stairway to a river, generally having at the summit a temple, pagoda, or place of rest and recreation.

noun. A pass through a mountain.

noun. A range of mountains.

noun. Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

noun. A descending path or stairway to a river; a ford or landing-place.

noun. A mountain range.

noun. A mountain pass.

noun. A burning-ghat.

noun. stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water

"Marched down to the ghat, which is generally speaking narrow and very strong, opening out here and there, into easier parts extending down the stream all the way; this stream loses itself suddenly, but after a little distance it is replaced by another from the right, where ravines enter: here the pass is well adapted for pillage, elsewhere the sides are so steep, that robbers could not dispose of their plunder."

ghaut  

staircase  stairway  

Rollin  Sphynx  Triton  banqueting-room  camp'  

wharf