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Meaning of ખીલી in English

  • Full of cracks.
  • Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
  • of Flour
  • the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
  • The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  • The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  • A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
  • A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
  • To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
  • To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
  • To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
  • To spike, as a cannon.
  • To beat or bruise with the fist.
  • Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
  • Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
  • Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
  • Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
  • A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
  • A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
  • One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
  • One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
  • A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
  • To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
  • To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
  • To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
  • A stain; a tache.
  • A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
  • A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
  • That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
  • A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
  • The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
  • The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
  • A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
  • Confidence; reliance.
  • To fasten or attach.
  • Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
  • In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
  • To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
  • To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.

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