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حَكَكٌ

Root: حك

Full Definition

حَكَكٌ A wearing away at the edges in a beast's hoof.

def.2 A gait in which is commotion, like the gait of a short woman who moves about her shoulder-joints.

def.3 Soft, or uncompact, white stones: or a kind of white stone, like marble, more soft, or uncompact, than marble, but harder than gypsum: n. un. with ة: or, with ة, ground in which are soft, or uncompact, stones, like marble: or, accord. to ADk, حُكَكَاتٌ , with damm, and then fet-h, signifies ground in which are white stones, resembling أَقِط, that break into many pieces; and such is only in low land,
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