Meaning of படுக்கை in English

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
(Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
A course of stone or brick in a wall.
The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
To place in a bed.
To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
To furnish with a bed or bedding.
To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.
To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
To go to bed; to cohabit.
of Bedabble
To dabble; to sprinkle or wet.
of Bed
Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds.
A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.
The state or position of beds and layers.
To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.
of Bedeck
Alt. of Bedell
Same as Beadle.
To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
To spoil; to corrupt.
of Bedevil
The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.
To moisten with dew, or as with dew.
of Bedew
A nightgown.
of Bedight
To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.
of Bedim
To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
A pan for warming beds.
A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.
A quilt for a bed; a coverlet.
of Bedrench
To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.
Alt. of Bedridden
Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity.
The side of a bed.
Towards bed.
To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
To arrange; to place; to inlay.
To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
One who couches.
One who couches paper.
A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.
The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
of Couch
The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.