سَلَّةٌ
Root: سل
Full Definition
2 And Theft: or covert, secret, or clandestine, theft; like إِسْلَالٌ [except that the former is a simple subst., and the latter is an Verbal.Noun, i. e. of 4]: one says, فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ سَلَّةٌ [Among the sons of such a one is theft, or covert theft]: and الخَلَّةُ تَدْعُو إِلَى السَّلَّةِ [Want invites to theft, or covert theft].
def.2 Also
2 And A revulsion of shortness of breathing (اِرْتِدَادُ رَبْوٍ) in the chest of a horse, in consequence of his suppressing such shortness of breathing [so I render مِنْ كَبْوَةٍ يَكْبُوهَا, but this phrase admits of other renderings, as will be seen in art. كبو]: when he is inflated thereby, one says, أَخْرَجَ سَلَّتَهُ [app. meaning he has manifested his revulsion of shortness of breathing]; and thereupon he is urged to run with vehemence, and made to sweat, and coverings are thrown upon him, and that shortness of breathing (ذٰلِكَ الرَّبْوُ) passes forth.
3 [In a sheep or goat, or a ewe or she-goat, it seems to mean Power, or force, of long continuance: see مَسْلُولَةٌ, voce مَسْلُولٌ.]
def.3 See also سِلٌّ.
def.4 Also A [basket of the kind called] جُونَة: or a thing like the جُونَة, or like the covered جُونَة, which is also called سَبَذَةٌ; so says Az: a receptacle in which fruit is carried: [sometimes covered with red skin: (see حَوَرٌ:) in the present day commonly applied to a basket made of twigs, oblong and deep, generally between a foot and a foot and a half in length:] and سَلٌّ signifies the same: what is termed سَلَّةُ الخُبْزِ [the bread-basket] is well known: سَلَّةٌ meaning as expl. above is not thought by IDrd to be an Arabic word: [the dim. سُلَيْلَةٌ occurs in the K voce جُونَةٌ, and in the Mgh voce رَبْعَةٌ, &c.:] the pl. is سِلَالٌ and سَلَّاتٌ and [coll. gen. n.] سَلٌّ , of
def.5 Also A fault, or defect, in a water-ing-trough or tank, or in a [jar of the kind called] خَابِيَة: or a breach between the أَنْصَابِ, or [more properly] between the نَصَائِب, [i. e. the stones set up, and cemented together with kneaded clay, around the interior,] of a watering-trough or tank.
2 And Fissures in the ground, that steal [i. e. imbibe] the water.
def.6 Also One's sewing [a skin, or hide, with] two thongs in a single puncture, or stitch-hole.
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