Meaning of खूंटी in English
- A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
- A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
- A noggin.
- A kind of strong ale.
- A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
- One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
- A treenail to fasten the shores.
- To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
- To fasten, as shores, with treenails.
- A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
- A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
- A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
- To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
- To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
- To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
- The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
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