Meaning of खोड in English
- Alt. of Steem
- The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
- A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- A branch of a family.
- A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
- Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
- That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
- The entire central axis of a feather.
- The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
- The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
- The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
- To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
- To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
- To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
- To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
- The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
- The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
- The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
- That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
- The proboscis of an elephant.
- The proboscis of an insect.
- A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
- A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
- A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
- To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
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