chowkat

plural chowkats

1. IndiaA decorative frame or sill on a door or window.

   Door chowkats shall be with or without wooden sills as ordered.

   1963, Tarjit Singh, Practical Book on Sessional and Project Examinations, Specially for Civil Engineering Students

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   Where no sill has been provided, the feet of the chowkat shall rest on the damp proof course or floor as the case may be. Where a sill has been provided, the number of hold fasts in the chowkat shall be reduced by two.

   1963, Punjab (India) Public Works Dept, Punjab P. W. D. Specifications, 1963, page 459

   Edges, chocks, cleats, etc, shall be deemed to be included in the item. Measured flat (not girthed) including chowkat or frame.

   1966, National Buildings Organisation (India), Handbook for building engineers in metric system, page XV-18

   There is a door chowkat with three fair big figures - a "dwarapala" with bow and arrows, a "Pujarini and a dancer at the bottom, and several rows of triple figure representing more or less a Vasudeva one above the other reaching perhaps the lintel, has been preserved by the village in their Namghar (temple), and is being worshipped as the presiding deity of the place.

   1984, Readings in the History & Culture of Assam, page 59