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lathi

n. A martial art based on stick fighting originally practiced in India.

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lathi

n. club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India [syn: lathee]

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Lathi (1992 film)

Laati is a 1992 Telugu-language Indian feature film directed by Gunasekhar, starring Prashanth and Raghuvaran in lead roles.

Lathi

Lathi may refer to:

  • Fighting stick in Indian subcontinent
    • Lathi charge, a police tactic used to disperse crowds
    • Lathi khela, a traditional Bangladeshi martial art
  • Lathi, Gujarat, a city in India
    • Lathi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Gujarat, India
  • Lathi (1992 film), Telugu-language Indian film
  • Lathi (1996 film), Bengali-language Indian film
Lathi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Lathi assembly constituency is one of the 182 assembly constituency of Gujarat. It is located in Amreli District.

Lathi (1996 film)

Lathi is a 1996 Bengali film director Prabhat Roy.The Film starring Victor Banerjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Abhishek Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey in lead roles.The film has been music composed by Bappi Lahiri.

Usage examples of "lathi".

The policeman walked cautiously forward, his lantern raised in one hand and his lathi tightly grasped in the other.

Upen-dranath Banerjee, who hardly believed in the possibility of such occult phenomena, had gone to the terrace with a lantern and a lathi to find the culprit.

Helen turned, relieved to see the wiry figure of her Sunyassi standing at the door of the temple, a stout lathi in his hand.

Therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon Lathi, that reigns over the city.

But, ten minutes after the smiling Lathi Tal had vanished, like a thunderbolt upon the heads of Van Houten and Groot descended the purport of a document which that confidential person must have accidentally dropped in their shop.