Meaning of शिक्का in English

Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.
Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.
That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.
To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
To affix one's seal, or a seal.
To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
To strike; to beat; to crush.
To strike the foot forcibly downward.
The act of stamping, as with the foot.
The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
that which is marked; a thing stamped.
A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
A half-penny.
Money, esp. paper money.