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ཐིག་སྐུད་
Transliteration: thig skud
<noun> "Line-marking thread / cord". The cord used for marking out a line, like the chalk cord used by carpenters or artists marking out dimensions on a drawing.

སྐུད་པ་
Transliteration: skud pa
I. <verb> v.t. བསྐུས་པ་/ སྐུད་པ་/ བསྐུ་བ་/ སྐུས་/. To apply something to the surface of something else by rubbing or smearing; similar to འབྱུག་པ་ q.v. Hence "to apply", "to put on", "to spread on", "to rub on", "to daub". E.g., [TC] སྨན་བསྐུས་པ། "spread the medicine on"; བཀྲག་རྩི་སྐུད་པ། "to apply gloss / varnish"; སྐྲ་ལ་སྐྲ་སྣུམ་བསྐུ་བ། "will rub hair oil through the hair".
II. <noun>…

ཐིག་
Transliteration: thig
<noun> 1) A "line" drawn. The term is freq. used in reference to lines drawn as guidelines. E.g., the "guidelines" when drawing a maṇḍala, building a house, and the "guidelines" and "outlines" when drawing a figure such as a deity. 2) Abbrev. of ཐིག་མ་ or ཐིག་ལེ་ q.v.