英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaʊˈkæt/
• 韻: -æt

名詞

chowkat (複数形 chowkats)

1. (India) A decorative frame or sill on a door or window.
   • 1963, Tarjit Singh, Practical Book on Sessional and Project Examinations, Specially for Civil Engineering Students:

     Door chowkats shall be with or without wooden sills as ordered.

   • 1963, Punjab (India) Public Works Dept, Punjab P. W. D. Specifications, 1963, page 459:

     Where no sill has been provided, the feet of the chowkat shall rest on the damp proof course or floor as the case may be. Where a sill has been provided, the number of hold fasts in the chowkat shall be reduced by two.

   • 1966, National Buildings Organisation (India), Handbook for building engineers in metric system, page XV-18:

     Edges, chocks, cleats, etc, shall be deemed to be included in the item. Measured flat (not girthed) including chowkat or frame.

   • 1984, Readings in the History & Culture of Assam, page 59:

     There is a door chowkat with three fair big figures - a "dwarapala" with bow and arrows, a "Pujarini and a dancer at the bottom, and several rows of triple figure representing more or less a Vasudeva one above the other reaching perhaps the lintel, has been preserved by the village in their Namghar (temple), and is being worshipped as the presiding deity of the place.