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gaz, vulg. gaj[Pehl. vazr; Zend vazra, 'club,' rt. vaz; S. वळ], s.m. An iron bar; a ramrod, a rammer; bow (of a fiddle);—an instrument for measuring with; a yard measure; a foot-rule; a yard (of measure, varying formerly from about thirty-two English inches upwards; and now fixed by Government at thirty-three inches):—gaz-bhar, A full yard; a yard (of anything):—gaz-se gaz, A square yard:—gaz-gat, s.f. Measuring with a gaz;—gaz-gat karnā, To measure with a gaz:—ilāhīgaz, or desīgaz, The yard of thirty-three inches:—lambarīgaz, The yard of thirty-six inches.
Origin: Persian