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Meaning of घाट in English

  • of Ferry
  • Made of jet, or like jet in color.
  • A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
  • A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
  • A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
  • To jut out; to project.
  • A place for mooring.
  • of Moor
  • The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
  • That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
  • The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
  • Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
  • Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
  • A projecting wharf or landing place.
  • A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
  • To furnish with quays.
  • The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
  • A narrow passage or entrance
  • A defile between mountains.
  • The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
  • That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
  • A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
  • A concave molding; a cavetto.
  • The groove of a pulley.
  • To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
  • To eat greedily and to satiety.

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