Finnish

(index pa)

Noun

palkki

1. A beam (long piece of timber, metal or concrete used in construction as horizontal support).
2. A horizontal bar on top or bottom of a newspaper page or article, television screen etc.
3. (music) A beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value).
4. (heraldry) A bend (strip from dexter chief (upper right corner) to sinister base of the shield). A strip from sinister chief to dexter base is called vastapalkki.

Declension

Derived terms

• palkittain

Anagrams

• pilkka, plakki, plikka