a limited or definite extent of time; the time for which something lasts; a term; a prefixed extent of period of time.

a shallow place in a stream, river, etc., where one can cross; a ford; a place or route of carriage over water; the place where a ferry docks on either shore; a ferry.

a kind of dish; a sweet or spiced cake cooked in steam.

an artificial waterway for irrigation; a canal.

a very difficult situation.

the tree Anthocephalus indicus (= A. cadamba, = Nauclea cadamba) of Rubiaceae family; cadamba tree.

a large deer (Cervus unicolor) with coarse hair, a short, erectile mane, and three-pointed antlers; an Indian sambar.

fleshy; plump; corpulent; stout; fat.

a fat, male monkey or cat.

(derog. or sarc.) a big, slow, fat person; a lubber.

a framework for supporting the bedspring and mattress of a bed; a bedstead.

a device, as a seat hanging from ropes or chains, on which one can sit and swing backward and forward as a form of amusement; a length of netting, canvas, etc. swung from ropes at both ends and used as a bed or couch; a swing; a hammock.

(dance.) one of the twenty four hand-gestures in which both hands are used.