Meaning of ছল in English

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
A little pocket for a watch.
To beat; to maul.
To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.
A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.
An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.
A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.
A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.