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Jela : powerful, from bodily strength or any other reason. Kangra Gloss. Jera : a pitchfork with 6 teeth. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 162. Jeth-wahag : eldest son's share (the best field). Churah. Jethal: wife's elder sisters jathal. Jhagala: a secret receptacle for treasure built in a house. Karnal. Jhagga : a large blanket (TM) Sirmür.
Jhajja: (Gadi) a steep hillside overgrown with long grass, bushes, etc., and hard to get along.
Jhajri: a kind of earthenware huqqa. Sirmür cis-Girl.
Jhal: a lining of woven withies of jhdo or simbhálů or túnt for lining the lower part of a leacha well. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 160.
Jhali: a rope net for carrying fodder. Karnal 8. R. 1880, p. 163.
PJhalo na to arrest : Bauria argot. Ex. hapdhi jhaloan awe, hara para hathai já. The constable is coming to arrest, let us escape.
Jhalrs : a necklace of 14 rupees. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 125. Jhaluhana : to singe, burn. Jhamb: a dredge. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 159. Jhanjhiro: a tree. Rohtak. .
Jhaolt: a vessel made of pottery, flatter and smaller than the dagga (q. v.), with a mouth broad enough to admit the hand, for grain and flour. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 121.
Jhare : & small, prickly bush, which grows in abundance on the waste land of most villages. Cf. mallah. Ludhiana S. R. 1888, p. 8.
Jharpala : & scrub, the cizyphus nummularia. Rohtak. Jharri: dr.zzle (Gadi). Cf, megh. Jhatt langghna : to spend a moment, pass any time (add to P.D. p. 497).
Jhawaliyo: & cooking vessel; Ex. jhawdliyo le awiyo, harhári meliye. Bring a cooking vessel and put the vegetables into it. Bauria argot.
Jheau : a measure of grain, equal to 2 sers kachha of cleaned rice, or 2) of dhan. Jhel, jel : second ploughing-Bee under hoghår. Jhik jana: to go down-see under bunk. Jhinw&: a good variety of rice. Kangra S. R., p. 26. Jhoka: a man who tends fire. Hoshiarpur S. R., p. 82.
Jhoka: a fireman who feeds the farnace for boiling juice of sugarcane. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 182.
Jhokar: Capparis horrida. Cf. hins. Gurgaon S. R. 1883, p. 12. Jhold: a gust of wind. Jhona : a second-class rice. Hoshiarpur S. R., p. 88. Jhugla: a shirt. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 124. Jhala: a rope bridge. Cf. 'ala. Jhund: see gandra.
Jhundar: a rude and primitive method of extracting jaice from sugarcane ; cattle are not employed, but strong active youths, and the cane is compressed by the sadden closing of two frames of wood. Kangra S. R., p. 27.
Jhunditor: cutting down bushes and grabbing up stamps. Karnal S. R. 1880, p. 168. Jhuttna =jhutna, add to P. D., p. 505. JI akkne : to be vexed, annoyed. Ji ka sajji: a man who contributes only personal labour, Karnal S. R., p. 112. Jicht41: (s. f.) annoyance.
