noun
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a pressing or squeezing.
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the act of causing pain to; an annoying or irritating; affliction.
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a holding, seizing (with or as with the hands); a clutching with the hand.
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(as per Indian erotica) one of the twelve kinds of embrace, in which one embraces another and presses hard to one's bosom, as to cause a pleasant pain.
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(as per Indian erotica, as a foreplay in sexual union) a biting hard of another's chin.
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(as per Indian erotica) a mode in sexual union, in which the man lies below and the woman above.