Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Russian liquid measure, a little smaller than a gill.
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Examples
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Tagore, for example, remained unconvinced of the merit of Gandhi's forceful advocacy that everyone should spin at home with the "charka," the primitive spinning wheel.
Tagore and His India 2001
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The aroused energy no longer resides only in the sexual center, or the second charka, it actually emanates throughout the body.
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When we last saw our Indian charka, we had examined the drive wheels.
September 2007 2007
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When we last saw our Indian charka, we had examined the drive wheels.
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Then they filled their glasses and began another round, or charka.
Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007
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In Russia, we have a saying: ‘The first charka is for health, the next for joy, the third for quarrel.’
Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007
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I was lucky enough to see some and to meet Sheila and Johnathon Bosworth at Woolfest this year..there can`t be many in the UK that can claim to have had their first ever try of a book charka under the eye of Johnathen Bosworth, no?
Archive 2006-09-01 Spinningfishwife 2006
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I was mince at it, btw, but the prototype Bosworth book charka is a work of art...
Spindle spinning. Spinningfishwife 2006
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I was mince at it, btw, but the prototype Bosworth book charka is a work of art...
Archive 2006-09-01 Spinningfishwife 2006
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I was lucky enough to see some and to meet Sheila and Johnathon Bosworth at Woolfest this year..there can`t be many in the UK that can claim to have had their first ever try of a book charka under the eye of Johnathen Bosworth, no?
Spindle spinning. Spinningfishwife 2006
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