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sāṇā m The spot where a ferryboat plies, a ferry.
A grindstone or whetstone.
A person set, on the part of one of the sharers, to watch over a field of corn, sugar-works &c., the joint property, to prevent fraudulent appropriation by any of the other sharers: also a person set by the landholder, as a watch over his tenant, from the cutting of his grain, sugarcane &c. until the thrashing, squeezing, and final disposing of it:--that he may not be defrauded of the portion his due.
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