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Meaning of کانٹا in English

  • An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
  • Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
  • One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
  • The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
  • The gibbet.
  • To shoot into blades, as corn.
  • To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
  • To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
  • of Fork
  • Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
  • A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
  • That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  • An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
  • See Eccentric, and V-hook.
  • A snare; a trap.
  • A field sown two years in succession.
  • The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
  • To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
  • To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  • To steal.
  • To bend; to curve as a hook.
  • A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
  • Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
  • Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
  • The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
  • To prick, as with a thorn.
  • of Thresh

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