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charkha

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char⋅kha

  [chahr-kuh]
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–noun
(in India and the East Indies) a cotton gin or spinning wheel.
Also, charka.

Origin:
1875–80; < Urdu < Pers
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char·kha also char·ka   (chûr'kə, chär'-)   
n.  A spinning wheel used in India for spinning cotton.

[Hindi carkhā, from Persian charkha, diminutive of charkh, wheel, from Old Persian *carka-; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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