s. f. (M.), present of grain made by a cultivator at sowing time to his menials, i. e. the carpenter, potter, barber, smith, shoemaker and farm-servants. The rate varies, but usually the first three get six seers of grain, the leather-worker three seers, and the farm-servants eight seers for each pair of bullocks, working on the estate; a cess levied by the Sikh Government at harvest, nominally as repayment for advances of seed which might or might not have been made.