Meaning of ખાડો in English
- To overtake.
- An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
- The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
- The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
- A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
- A word; a decree.
- A ditty; a song.
- To close up.
- The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- A narrow passage or entrance
- A defile between mountains.
- The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- A concave molding; a cavetto.
- The groove of a pulley.
- To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- To eat greedily and to satiety.
- A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
- The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
- A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.
- A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
- Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
- A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
- A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
- The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
- See Pit of the stomach (below).
- The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.
- An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
- A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
- To place or put into a pit or hole.
- To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
- To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
- One who pities.
- One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
- The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery.
- To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
- To drench; to wet thoroughly.
- To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
- To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
- Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
- To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
- To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
- To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
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