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Meaning of কাণ্ড in English

  • A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
  • A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
  • Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
  • Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
  • See Chord.
  • To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
  • To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
  • of Core
  • of Stem
  • Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.
  • A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
  • A baton, or military staff of command.
  • A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
  • To beat with a truncheon.
  • The thorax of an insect. See Trunk, n., 5.
  • The stem, or body, of a tree, apart from its limbs and roots; the main stem, without the branches; stock; stalk.
  • The body of an animal, apart from the head and limbs.
  • The main body of anything; as, the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches.
  • That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
  • That segment of the body of an insect which is between the head and abdomen, and bears the wings and legs; the thorax; the truncus.
  • The proboscis of an elephant.
  • The proboscis of an insect.
  • A long tube through which pellets of clay, p/as, etc., are driven by the force of the breath.
  • A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler.
  • A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
  • A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
  • A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
  • To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
  • To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
  • A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
  • A gudgeon on each side of an oscillating steam cylinder, to support it. It is usually tubular, to convey steam.

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