'Dak' definitions:
Definition of 'dak'
(from WordNet)
noun
East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye [syn: dhak, dak, palas, Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma]
Definition of 'Dak'
From: GCIDE
- Dak \Dak\ (d[add]k or d[aum]k), n. [Hind. [dsdot][=a]k.] Post; mail; also, the mail or postal arrangements; -- spelt also dawk, and dauk. [India] [1913 Webster]
- Dak boat, a mail boat. --Percy Smith.
- Dak bungalow, a traveler's rest-house at the end of a dak stage.
- To travel by dak, to travel by relays of palanquins or other carriage, as fast as the post along a road.