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be brought into hotchpot, but will devolve only on the heirs of the original holder. Still the term is most usually applied to land given to a woman for maintenance only, though it is occasionally contended that the chheti of the wife of one of two brothers should not be divided between them. This was, of course, disputed and over-ruled. A Kallu xamindár is extremely fond of giving each of his wives a separate house, and dividing his land amongst them as chhets.
Chhohir : a girl :-chhiuni, a young inexperienced girl. Chhopa: s.m. a spinning party, i. q. tiranjan. Chhor: the grain left on the threshing floor. Karnal 8. R., p. 116.
Chhor: a stack in which stalks of the great millets and maine are stacked. Karnal S. R., 1880, p. 164.
Chhori chhora : & game in which one captain saye to the other," Guess whose honge I am thinking of in such and such a street in which there are two boys and girl," and according as the guess is right or wrong, the boys of one party mount the backs of the others and are carried to the house named where they ask the good wife, "above above or below above," and according to her answer they remain as they are or change places and so ride back to their playground. Sirsa S. R. 1883, p. 206.
Chhot: evil influence. Karnal 8. R., 1880, p. 150. Chhuri : bari - mårnå, to receive with hostility. Chhuttha : irr. p.-part, of chhuhná. Chi: a funeral pyre, used in Pangi. Chib : the inferior fodder crop of jowår, cut green. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 187. Chichar: débris. Rangra Gloss.
Chichkarna; a mode of worship which consists in touching first the object to be worshipped and then the forehead, with the right hand. Karnal S. R. 1880. p. 144.
Chifala : slippery, as a hill-bide, or anything hard to hold. Kangra Gloss.
Chigea: a tiny lamp of pottery used at the Diwali festival. Cf. chugra. Karnal S. R., 1880, p. 122.
Chiha: a boy : see damkera. Bauria argot.
Chik: soil, ground, especially land owned, like fields, as opposed to waste. Kangra S. R. (Lyall), p. 25.
Chiklis, Chirkalio : sparrow. Bauria argot. Chiknot: a clayey soil found only in depressed basing. Gurgaon S. R., 1883 p. 6. Chilwa: & fish (chela gora). Karnal 8, R., p. 8. Ludhiana S. R., 1889, p. 18. Chingt :=chanát. Chingar: board of wheat. Sirsa S. R., 1883, p. 284. Chinggharna: to trumpet, of an elephant.
Chinkhe: an inferior kind of red sugar-cane, the cane is very sweet, bat gives very little juice; this sort is sometimes grown only for fodder. Gujranwala S. R., p. 27.
Chinta : s. e. Cf, Panjabi Dicty., p. 286. Chip: a fish trap of bamboo, or osier under a weir in a stream. Kangra Glosa. Chlpat: a tree (solanum santhocarpum). Cf. kandai. Karnal S. R., p. 9. Chirkalio: sparrow; see shiklia.
Chirkhu-musan: a male spirit which swings, whence its name. It haunts cross-roads and frightens wayfarers. Chamba.
• In Pattan (British Libul) there are some Digi families who hold chhath or small allotments of land renttree from the State, on condition of stacking wood at oertain balting places and carrying palanquins. They are pot liable to carry baggage or oross the passe
