Meaning of పిట్ట in English
- A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
- Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
- To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
- To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
- Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.
- To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
- To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
- To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
- To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
- Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
- Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
- Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
- A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
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