پاٹ

पाट pāṭ[S. पट्टः; पǂऽं], s.m. Slab, tablet, board, plank, shutter; fold or leaf (of a door); throne, seat, stool; one of two millstones (either the upper or the lower); the stone or plank on which Indian washermen beat clothes;—bed or plot in a garden or field, terrace; one part, side, or edge of two pieces ofcloth; folding clothes or laying them in order;—earthen hoop or brace to prevent a well from falling in; the horizontal beam to which the bullocks are attached in a sugar or oil mill, also the place where the driver sits; sack or load of corn;—silk cloth; cocoon of silk;—the plant Corchorus olitorius (from the fibres of which sacking and cordage are made); tow:—pāt-ambar (S. paṭṭa+ambara), s.m. Silk cloth; silk garment:—pāṭ-rānī, pāṭmahishī, s.f. The queen who is installed or consecrated with the king, principal wife of a rājā, queenconsort:—pāṭ-kirm, pāṭkr̤im, s.m. Silk-worm.