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Meaning of गवत in English

  • Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
  • An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
  • Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
  • An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
  • To moisten with dew, or as with dew.
  • of Bowery
  • To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
  • Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
  • An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
  • The season of fresh grass; spring.
  • Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
  • To cover with grass or with turf.
  • To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
  • To produce grass.
  • A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting.
  • The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.
  • of Grass
  • A hedge.
  • A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
  • To lay snares for rabbits.
  • Grass cut and cured for fodder.
  • To cut and cure grass for hay.
  • The European spotted flycatcher.
  • The European blackcap.
  • A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow.
  • The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
  • A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.
  • A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
  • Hawthorn.
  • An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.
  • A magician.
  • Border; margin; edge; verge.
  • Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.
  • Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1.
  • Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style.
  • A combination of distinct colors; esp., the party-colored cloth, or clothing, worn by the professional fool.
  • Hence, a jester, a fool.
  • To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
  • To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
  • The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
  • See Molt.
  • of Mow
  • The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.
  • Land from which grass is cut; meadow land.
  • Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.
  • Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.
  • Alt. of Moolley
  • Wine boiled and mingled with honey.
  • Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
  • Soft flow; spring.
  • The liquor of a tan vat.
  • To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
  • Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
  • To cause to ooze.
  • A crossbar of wood in a shaft, serving as a step.
  • A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
  • A furrow.
  • To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
  • Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.
  • That which sullies or defiles.
  • The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
  • Silt; mud deposited by water.
  • Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

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