حَدَأَةٌ

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حَدَأَةٌ and حِدَأَةٌ , but the former is the more chaste, A double-headed فَأْس [i. e. hoe, or adz, or axe]: [a kind of فَأْس used in the present day is a hoe with two heads, one at each end of the handle:] or the head of a فَأْس: and the head of an arrow: pl. of the former حَدَأٌ [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.] and حِدَآءٌ, (K, TA, [in the CK حَداءٌ,]) mentioned by AO and As and A 'Obeyd; and the pl. of حِدَأَةٌ is حِدَأٌ [or rather this, like حَدَأٌ, is a coll. gen. n.].

def.2 See also the next paragraph, in two places.

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