Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pincerlike claw of a crustacean or arachnid, such as a lobster, crab, or scorpion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cheela . - noun In sponge-spicules, a microsclere consisting of a more or loss curved shaft bearing at each end a variable number of recurved processes.
- noun The pair of pincers or nippers, or the so-called claw, which terminates some of the limbs of most Crustacea, as crabs and lobsters, formed by an enlarged propodite bearing a movably apposed dactylopodite; the last and penultimate segments of a chelate limb or cheliped so modified as to constitute a prehensile organ like a pair of pincers.
- noun The similar nipper- or pincer-like claw terminating the chelicera of an arachnidan, as a scorpion. In these two senses also
chele . - noun A genus of cyprinoid fishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
- noun In India, a dependent person occupying a position between that of a servant or slave and a disciple; hence, a disciple or novice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pincer -likeclaw of acrustacean orarachnid . - noun A
pupil ordisciple , especially inHinduism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Hindu disciple of a swami
- noun a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term chela, commonly used for a Hindu disciple who leaves household life to live and study with
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They are usually accompanied by a youthful disciple, called a "chela," a boy of from 10 to 15 years of age, who will become a fakir himself unless something occurs to change his career.
Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking 2009
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