شِرَاعٌ
Root: شرع
Full Definition
def.2 The شِرَاعٌ of a ship or boat is called in Pers. بَادْبَان [i. e. A sail]; i. q. قِلْعٌ; a thing like a wide مُلَآءَة [q. v.], of cloth or of matting, [raised, or attached,] upon a piece of wood [i. e. a mast or a yard]; which is beaten upon by the wind (تُصَفِّقُهُ الرِّيحُ,) and causes the ship, or boat, to go along: so called because it is raised (يُشْرَعُ i. e. يُرْفَعُ) above the ship, or boat: pl. أَشْرِعَةٌ and شُرُعٌ; the former a pl. of pauc.
2 And hence, as being likened thereto,
3 One says also رَجُلٌ شِرَاعُ الأَنْفِ, meaning
4 See also شِرْعَةٌ, in three places.
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