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Meaning of चालक in English

  • One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
  • The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
  • An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
  • A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
  • The driving wheel of a locomotive.
  • An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
  • A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
  • The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
  • A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows.
  • A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support any part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
  • Anything arranged to act as a support, as in various forms of mechanism, etc.
  • A cushioned or a piece part of a saddle.
  • A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing.
  • Anything used to prevent chafing.
  • A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
  • A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.
  • The crossbeam forming the bearing piece of the body of a railway car; the central and principal cross beam of a car truck.
  • the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
  • That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.
  • The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
  • The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
  • A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
  • To support with a bolster or pillow.
  • To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up.
  • A supporter.
  • One who implores.
  • Operative.
  • An operative person or thing.
  • To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
  • To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.
  • One who pills or plunders.
  • Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.
  • Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

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