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Meaning of धक्का in English

  • of Push
  • Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.
  • To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.
  • To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
  • To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
  • To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
  • The act of shoving; a forcible push.
  • p. p. of Shove.
  • Convenient sea room.
  • A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
  • The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
  • An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
  • A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
  • To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
  • To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
  • A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet.
  • A child's game.
  • A blossoming; a bloom.
  • To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
  • To beat; to strike.
  • To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
  • To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
  • To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
  • To flout with contempt.
  • A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
  • A sudden start or spring.
  • Same as Jowl.
  • To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
  • To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
  • A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
  • To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.
  • To push; to crowd; to hustle.
  • A conflict by collisions; a crowding or bumping together; interference.
  • An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle. Cf. Bit, n.
  • To set down; to make a brief note of; -- usually followed by down.
  • A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
  • Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  • To make a pompons display; to conduct.
  • Offset, n., 4.
  • A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
  • A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
  • A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
  • A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
  • To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
  • To be occupied with making shocks.
  • A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
  • A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
  • A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
  • The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
  • To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
  • To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
  • To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
  • A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
  • A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
  • Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
  • A shock of grain.
  • A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
  • The shell of an oyster or clam.
  • To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

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