शलाका

Monier-Williams · śalākā
śalākā f. any small stake or stick, rod (for stirring &c.), twig (smeared with lime for catching birds), rib (of an umbrella), bar (of a cage or window), chip, splinter, splint, pencil (for painting or applying collyrium) &c. &c ‖ a piece of bamboo (borne as a kind of credential by mendicants and marked with their name) ‖ the quill of a porcupine ‖ an oblong quadrangular piece of ivory or bone (used in playing a partic. game). ‖ a peg, pin, arrow-head, needle, a probe (used in surgery and sometimes taken as the N. of this branch of, surgery ), any pointed instrument ‖ a sprout, sprig, shoot

विस्तृत संस्कृत–हिन्दी · noun
वंशस्य कृशा यष्टिः।; "सः शलाकया पिटकः निर्माति।"