beautiful ornamental lines and figures drawn with powders of various colours on the floor.

to give a baby milk from the breast; to suckle.

to separate the warp threads and beat up the weft using a reed.

the expanse of land fed by a tank, canal, etc.

tidiness.

a printing house; a press.

= ಅಚ್ಚುಕಟ್ಟು2

a small nail or rod planted at the centre of the fixed bottom stone of a hand-mill, around which the top stone-wheel revolves while grinding.