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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Russian liquid measure, a little smaller than a gill.

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Examples

  • 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

  • The aroused energy no longer resides only in the sexual center, or the second charka, it actually emanates throughout the body.

    Dr. Elsbeth Meuth and Freddy Zental Weaver: Sexual Intelligence: One of the Keys to Fulfillment and Joy 2009

  • When we last saw our Indian charka, we had examined the drive wheels.

    September 2007 2007

  • When we last saw our Indian charka, we had examined the drive wheels.

    Learning new things: Charkha spinning, part 2 2007

  • Then they filled their glasses and began another round, or charka.

    Malice Robert K. Tanenbaum 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • I was mince at it, btw, but the prototype Bosworth book charka is a work of art...

    Spindle spinning. Spinningfishwife 2006

  • I was mince at it, btw, but the prototype Bosworth book charka is a work of art...

    Archive 2006-09-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

  • 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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