Crooke, William: A rural and agricultural glossary for the N.-W. Provinces and Oudh (Calcutta, 1888)

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Pachdûî—\_pachdo]—(1) see pachdo; (2) pach-
dûlî) of cotton—when the cleaned cotton is two-
fifths of the entire produce.

Pachdûlî—see pachdo, pachdûî.

Pachduvâr—[Skt. pahcha — five, Skt. dvâra —
a door]—a house with five doors or openings
(ghar).

Pachguriyâ—[pâhch = five P ankur — curved]
—a five-pronged rake used on the threshing-
floor and for covering seed, etc. (dânt).

Pâchh—[Skt. prachchho =■ to scarify]—the in-
cision made in the poppy capsule for extracting
the opium' (afiyun).

Pachhanî—[? pîchhê — behind] (packhnî)—the
second scum which rises when water is added to
the boiling syrup in sugar refining. In Rohil-
khand it is applied to the refined white sugar
which is scraped off the filtering basket
(khancM) as soon as the water weed (sivâr) has
bleached the sugar. When dried in the sun
pachhanî becomes khânr. The second scum is
in Rohilkhand chandoî or chandiyâ.

Pachhântnâ—[Skt. pascha = behind; pach-
hârnâ — to throw down ; beat]—to beat clothes
on a stone or piece of timber to clean them
(pachhârnâ).

Pachhar—[Skt. pascha = behind]—the upper
rim of the bh^E·

Pachhâr— V =.

Pachhârâ— )

Pachhârab—' =_

Pachhârab— r:

Pachhâran [ =- ^jflvN
gram, &c., 1 = ™
khand (mêrl ——

Pachhârî—Γ«, —

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Pachhêlâ-
Pachhêlî-
ladle used b
(halvâî, khai
women on th
Pachhît—- )[
Pachhîtâ— j
Rohilkhand I
Pachhlakarâ—
Pachhlakarî—
Pachhlakrâ—
Pachhlakrî—·
Pâchhnâ—[Sk
lance poppy 1
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which holds —

the plough (I Ξ_

Pachhran—[pachhra)—the upper rim of the block
of the sugarcane mill. Rohilkhand (kolhû).

Pachhuâ —\_pichhê, Skt. paksha — behind]—(1)
grain left on the threshing-floor after the bulk
of the crop is removed. East districts (mêrh) ;

(2) cesses levied by the land on the tenant’s
share of the produce. East districts (sêrahî) ;

(3) grain collected by gleaning. East districts
(siIlâ) ; (4) a woman’s ornament for the wrist—
cf. pachhêl.

Pachhûran—see pachhoran.

Pachhûrnâ—see pachhornâ.

Pachhvâ—[Skt. pashchima]—(l)the west wind;
(2) hoven or rinderpest in cattle, supposed to
be produced by the west wind. Benares
(chêchak),

Pach hvânsâ— 1 [pîclihê — behind ? bans — bam-

Pachhvânsî— ) boo]—a wedge or peg connect-

ing the beam and body in a plough. Duâband
Rohilkhand (hal).

Pachkaliyân—I [Skt.pancha — five ; kalyâna —

Pachkalyân—) prosperity]—a series of five

lucky marks on a horse—see ghorâ.

Pachkarma—[Skt. pancha — five ; karma ~
performance]—the circumambulation round the
funeral pyre performed with a torch five times
by the chief mourner.

r*"~LI'Li - [Skt. panchasha]—a conjunction of
ucky stars : (panchak) a period of five
the year from the 22nd asterism Shra-

0 the 27th Rêvatî, during which it is un-
) do any work : persons who die during
îe are thrown into a river, not burnt—
'âkarm.

-[pânch — five ; lâr — a string]—a
s neck ornament with five strands,
i—a corr of pachhvâùsâ (qv.).

—\_panch — five; milnâ — to mix]—five
t sorts of sweetmeats sold unassorted : a
of any five things : hence indiscrimi-
t sixes and sevens.

1 —shaky mud (bhâs).

-[Skt. pancha — five, vâra = time]—
i ploughing of a field (pachbâhî).
parva)—a male buffalo calf.

-[Skt. pradhâna = principal]—the lead-
int in a village : the head of a caste or
arbitrators. In Morâdâbâd it is applied
descendants of deprived proprietors who
luced to stay on and use their influence
df of the new master by the concession
in privileges, the chief of which was the
t of a considerably lower rate of rent
dinary tenants : the word is sometimes,
·, confounded with the thanêt who is
>nly a salaried agent of the proprietor
mnqaddam in the Duàb (Sett. Rep. 27)
Idam), (panchâyat).
îârî— \_padhâ)i\ (haq padhânî, jêt-
) —the remuneration of a village head-
iiumaun.

;ee pariyâ,

I see parvâ.

see paôdûr.
ee pariyâ.

foot ; leg of a bed, etc.

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