Meaning of அகழி in English
- Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea.
- Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
- To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.
- A mixture of oats and barley.
- To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat.
- To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
- To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.
- A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
- To surround with a moat.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
- To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
- To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
- To encroach; to intrench.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
- An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
- An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
- of Trench
- One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
- A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
- The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
- A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
- To dance the trenchmore.
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