جیہڑ

जेहड़ jehaṛ[S. जीवा or जीवन'water'+घटी], s.f. A water-pot, water-jar;—a pile of pots filled with water and placed one over the other in order to be carried on the head; a ceremony preparative to marriage, in which pots filled with water are piled over one another, the whole is crowned with a bowl of sherbet, and the friends watch by it during the night. (To take the water-pots off the head of a divorced woman implies consent to marry her.)