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Gada : coarse unbleached country cotton cloth. Sirsa 1883, p. 155.
Gadal: a beam fixed to the vertical axis of the horizontal cogged wheel of a Persian well, to which the bullocks are yoked. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 160.
Gadal : fine mud. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 186.
Gaddi: & reddish insect which preys on the inside leaf of the arrow, thus stopping all growth. Cf. súra. Jollundur S. R., p. 119.
Gaddi: a sheaf, or man's load of rice in straw. Kangra Gloss. Gadel : a snake (Bungarus fusciatus). Cl. raond. Jullundur S. R., p. 12. Gadt-vand: see tarophlá. Gadwala : a felloe. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 158. Gadwala : a kind of brick. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 159. Gahi, gat: a bear (Kulla), chidha gái, black bear-se under bili. Gahi: a recess or shelf in a wall; ala is the common term. Kangra Gloss.
Gahr: the sides of the high Limalayas, from the upper limit of the forests down to the grazing grounds about the highest villages, also a sheep-run in such a locality opposed to nigdhr, q.v. also called kundli. Kangra Gloss.
Gal kt pan: the superstition under which cows and oken were exempted from grazing-tax. Kangra S. R., p. 24.
Gaira : a small bundle of corn. Karnal S. R., p. 117. Gal lipatna : to embrace. Gal-pesa, -o: a disease of the throat: D. G. Khân. Syn. sanghri.
Gala: a share or portion, as in ek-gala páni, one allowance or share of water from a canal: ekgala gha, one feed of hay for an ox. Kangra Gloss.
Galana : to speak or say. Kangra Gloss.
Galen (Gadi): any place where rocks and boulders lie in masses one over the other, a moraine. Kangra Gloss.
Gali: the curved bearing of the beam of a sugar press, to which the oxen are fastened. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 161.
Galla: bail-storm. Cf. gola. Ludhiana S. R. 1883, p. 125. Galota : & reel or spindleful of spun cotton (Malwa). Gamina: a messenger. Karnal S. R., p. 118. Gamro : village. Bauria argot. Gand: a part of a plotigh. Jullundur S. R., p. 109. Gandals: an iron for digging holes. Cf. khuti. Hoshiarpur S, R., p. 72. Gandhi: a grass (Andropogon). Karnal S. R., p. 13. Gandmal : the worst combination of stars at a child's birth. Ludhiana S. R. 1883.,
p. 71.
Gandra : grass found in ponds and depressions, very valuable for thatching and brooms : syns. jhund and pani (anathenum mudricatan): Rohtak,
Ganlaha: a small chopper, with a long handle, used to cat ap sugar-cane into lengths. Kangra Gloss.
Ganna: thick or close, As of a wood; opposed to birla, scanty or scattered. Kangra Gloss.
Ganthil : a kind of grass, (eleusine flagellifera. Of. bhobriya, chimbar and kharimliar). Karnal S. R., p. 13.
Gaopun: an offering of a cow. Sirsa S. R. 1883, p. 145. Gar: a scar or slip of part of a hill-side, Zhd is also used. Kangra Gloss. Garakha: thunder. Kangra Gloss.
