Meaning of கவசம் in English

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
A strip of lead which leads the drip of a wall into a gutter; a flashing.
The infolded abdomen of a crab.
Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.
Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.
One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger.
Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.
Alt. of Armorican
Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
Dressed; habited; clad.
of Garble
of Garter
of Gird
A griddle.
That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
The zodiac; also, the equator.
The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
A thin bed or stratum of stone.
The clitellus of an earthworm.
To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
of Girdle
A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
Same as Mantling.
The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.
Any free, outer membrane.
The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
A mantel. See Mantel.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
To spread out; -- said of wings.
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.
To ward off; to keep off or out.
To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
of Shield
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
To take shelter or harbor.
To lop. See Shrood.
Affording shelter.