The rare right-handed chank shell is specially valued, and purchased for large sums.
Vaishnavites and Madhvas are branded with the emblems of the chank and chakram.
The Maduraik-kanchi describes Korkai as the chief town in the country of Parathavar and the seat of the pearl fishery, with a population consisting chiefly of pearl divers and chank cutters.
A string of coral shows by the fading of its colour that the wearer is ill; to prevent pimples and eruptions a chank is rubbed on the face, when washing it.
Defn: A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.
One man had suspended round his neck, as a hereditary talisman, a big silver Venkataramana bottu with the namam in the centre on an altar, and the chank and chakram stamped on it.
Most of the Labbais are traders; some are engaged in weaving corah (sedge) mats; and others in diving at the pearl and chank fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar.
He burns the signs of a chank and chakram on the girl's shoulders, presenting to her at the same time holy water.
This tendency of particular localities to re-produce certain specialities of form and colour is not confined to the sea or to the instance of the chank shell.
The Gulf of Manaar has been fished from the earliest times for the large chank shell, Turbinella rapa, to be exported to India, where it is still sawn into rings and worn as anklets and bracelets by the women of Hindustan.
The sacred conch or chank shell is used as a musical instrument in processions, and during religious services at Hindu temples.
They bear on one side the Malayalam legend Sri Padmanabha, and on the other a chank shell.
Red and blue necklaces, interstrung with sections of the chank shell (Turbinella rapa) adorned the necks and chests.
The chank is stamped twice on the right side of the chest, in two places on the left arm, and once on the left temple.
Women, and girls after marriage, are branded with the chakra on the right forearm, and the chank on the left.
The situations and emblems selected are the chakra on the right upper arm, right side of the chest, and above the navel; the chank on the left shoulder and left side of the chest.
A new cloth is spread, and on it food, fruits, a chank shell, etc.
Members of the latter section, who have been branded by their Brahman guru with the chank and chakram, abstain from animal food, and intoxicating drinks.
The disciples of the three other mutts are generally branded with the chakra on the right upper arm, and chank on the left.
The disciples, after a purificatory bath and worship of their gods, proceed to the residence of the Acharya or to the mutt, where they are initiated into their religion, and branded with the chakra on the right shoulder and chank on the left.
The chank appears as a symbol on coins of the Chalukyan and Pandyan dynasties of Southern India, and on the modern coins of the Maharajas of Travancore.
Turmeric water is poured over the hands seven times from a chank or sankha shell.
The parents of the bride and bridegroom pour turmeric-water from a chank (Turbinella rapa) shell or leaf over their united hands.
Sangukatti, or those who tie the conch or chank shell (Turbinella rapa).
By them the Gangeddulu are branded on the shoulder with the emblems of the chank and chakram, and initiated into the mysteries of the Dasari priesthood.
When a Paraiyan is to be branded, the Brahman heats the instruments bearing the devices of the chank and chakaram, and hands them to the Dasari, who performs the operation of branding.
The stamping refers to branding with the emblems of the chank and chakram.
When the wedding was about to take place, Krishna carried off Rukmani, and placed a bangle made of chank shell on her wrist.
She is then branded with the emblems of the chank and chakra.
But Sir Timerson Chank made no sign of compliance.
Sir Timerson Chank now bore down on my left and presently rounded to, delivering his broadside at short range; but I turned on him savagely, bidding him hold his tongue, which so astonished him that he obeyed me.
My Lady Shelton and Sir Timerson Chank will surely return to catch you here if you hasten not--dear heart.
Cade and I stopped Sir Timerson Chank by that signpost.
Down to a very late period, gems, pearls, and chank shells continued to be the only products taken away from Ceylon, and cinnamon is nowhere mentioned in the Sacred Books as amongst the exports of the island.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chank" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
