a bent piece of wire, usu. barbed and baited, for catching fish; a fish-hook.

(fig.) anything used as a lure; an enticement.

(fig.) a tricky method for achieving a purpose; an angle.

a person guilty of or likely to commit great crimes; an evil or wicked person; a scoundrel; a villain.

a jungle-fowl; gallus sonnerati.

a quantity of thread or yarn wound in a coil; skein.

a man who habitually steals or is guilty of theft; a thief.

a floor made for thrashing grains; a thrashing floor.

a wide area where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

a place where game or games are played; a play-ground.

a bed made for planting plants (esp. seedlings).

the act or an instance of stealing; theft.

to commit or get by, theft; to take or appropriate (another's property, ideas, etc.) without permission, dishonestly or unlawfully, esp. in a secret or surreptitious manner; to steal; to thieve.

ಕಳ್ವಾಳ್ kaḷvāḷa person who habitually steals or is guilty of theft; a thief.

the juice that circulates through a plant, esp. a woody plant, bearing water, food, etc. to the tissues; the plant sap.

toddy - a) the sweet sap of various East Indian palms, used as a beverage b) an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting this sap.

= ಕಳ್2.