دوال

davāl, duvāl, du`āl, vulg. do`āl, divāl (cf. dabba, ḍab, and ḍāb); s.f. Skin, hide, leather; a leather strap, stirrup-leather, a belt;—splendour, pomp, grandeur, majesty:—duvāl-pā, adj. & s.m. Web-footed; leather-legged;—name of a people in India who have thin and ductile legs with which they strangle unwary travellers (they are said to pretend to be lame, and to importune travellers to carry them on their backs, which proves fatal to those whose compassion induces them to comply, as the villains twist their legs round their necks and instantly strangle them),the Thags;—a member of that class, a Thag, q.v.