a long, slender piece of wood for walking with or beating; a stick.

an informal unit for measuring the area of a bounded region or a plane.

a stick, graduated or not, used in measuring the land-area.

a forest dwelling woman.

to divide; to cut; to severe; to fell.

to break up and remove or turn over soil, ground, etc., with a tool, one's hands; to dig.

to be cut, severed, divided or felled.

(fig. often. sarc.) to ahieve something that is difficult or great.

ಕಡಿದು ಕಟ್ಟೆಹಾಕು kaḍidu kaṭṭehāku (said sarcasticaly or in anger) to achieve something that is great or difficult; 'you have done a tremendous job' . ಕಡಿದಾಟ kaḍidāṭa (fig.) a mutual beating; ಕಡಿದಾಡು kaḍidāḍu (fig.) to beat mutually (as in a quarrel); ಕಡಿದವನ ಪಾಪ ಖಡ್ಗ ಮಾಡಿದವನಿಗುಂಟೆ? kaḍidavana pāpa khaḍga māḍidavaniguṇṭe? responsibility of not using a means for a vile purpose lies on the user rather than on the inventor of that means.

an assurance that one will or will not undertake a certain action, behaviour, etc.; a promise.

a wild buffalo, Bos gaurus; a bison.

name of a minor deity.

a kind of liquid food made with buttermilk, vegetables, spices, etc.; curds mixed with salt, chillies, mustard, etc. and some rice flour boiled and seasoned.

the part of the human body below the ribs and above the hips, usu. of smaller circumference than these; the narrower middle part of the normal human figure; the waist.

an oblong roll of cotton thread.

a fold of skin over the navel.