gúpti f. preserving, protecting, protection, [AV. vi, 122, 3]; [xii, 3, 7]; [TS. v f.]; [TBr.] &c.
restraint (of body, mind, and speech), [HYog.]; [Sarvad. iii, 191] and [210 f.]
concealing, hiding, keeping secret (ifc.), [Kām.] ([Hit.]), [Sāh.]; [Sarvad. xv]
a means of protection, fortification, rampart, [R. v f.]; [Kum. vi, 38]
a prison, [VarBṛ. v, 10]
‘place of concealment’, a hole in the ground, sink, cellar, [L.]
digging a hole in the ground, [L.], Sch.
‘a leak in a ship’ or ‘the well or lower deck of a boat’, [L.]