تَذَاْوَقَ

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تَذَاْوَقَVI see 1, first sentence. [The primary signification of تَذَاوُقٌ seems to be The tasting a thing one with another.
2 And hence,] تذاوقوا الرِّمَاحَ i. q. تَنَاوَلُوهَا [They took the spears, one from another, app. to test their qualities: see ذَاقَ القَوْسَ, above]. Ibn-Mukbil says, أَوْ كَٱهْتِزَازِ رُدَيْنِىٍّ تَذَاوَقَهُ أَيْدِى التِجَارِ فَزَادُوا مَتْنَهُ لِينَا [Or like the quivering of a well-straightened spear which the hands of the dealers have taken, one from another, to test its quality, so that they have made the middle of it to increase in suppleness].

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