a device attached to a door for fastening it; a latch.

a long bamboo staff.

a stick with zigzag surfaced head at one end, used to stir, beat or shake curd in a churn to make butter; a churn-stick.

a slender shaft with a pointed tip and other end being feathered used to be shot from a bow; an arrow.

an old unit for measuring the area of a land.

a stick of standard length used for this purpose.

the heavy wood or stone which by revolving in a mortar grinds oil-seeds to extract oil, in a bullock-driven oil mill.

a long pole with a broad blade at one end used for propelling or steering a boat; an oar.

the slender, jointed stem of plants as sugarcane, jowar, etc.

the long beam of the plough.

any of the farm implements, as plough, etc.; an agricultural implement.

a limit; a boundary; a frontier.

something that covers or protects; protection or a place affording protection; a shelter.

a division of a revenue district of a state; a taluk.

a small fortified place, town, etc.

personal courage; valour.

a round vessel of any size, made of earthenware, with a small mouth, used for holding liquids; a pot.

a unit of time (equal to twenty-four minutes); its duration.

a professional wrestler.

to cut or puncture using the teeth; strike or bite (something) with a beak; to bite; to peck.

(an irritation in the skin) to be felt, (a desire to scratch it) to be caused.

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.

either of the two fleshy protuberances on the lower rear part of the human body; the posterior; the buttocks.

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.

a fold of skin over the navel.

an oblong roll of cotton thread.

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

a hard or dry substance (as a piece of bread that has lost moisture in it).

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.

a relatively thin, broad piece cut from an object having some bulk or volume or a whole; a bit; a slice; a fragment.

the coarse flour of a grain, corn etc.

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.

(in comp.) sharp; acute; harsh; biting; sever.

the end or corner of a thing.

a thin food made by cooking the flour of jowar, rāgi, etc.in water; gruel.