ضَبَّةٌ

Root: ضب

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ضَبَّةٌ [an Verbal.Noun un. of ضَبَّ: as such signifying] A single bleeding of the gum [&c.].
2 See also 1, last sentence but one.

def.2 Also A single [lizard of the species termed] ضَبّ [q. v.].
2 And The skin of a [lizard of the species termed] ضَبّ, tanned for clarified butter to be put into it.
3 And A broad piece of iron with which a door is clamped or strengthened (يُضَبَّبُ): or a piece of iron or brass or the like, with which a vessel is repaired: [a word still used in these senses; commonly applied to a flat piece of iron or the like, which is nailed across a crack in a wooden vessel or a similar thing: and a band of metal which is affixed around a cracked vessel: (see an ex. voce عَصَبَ:) also to a kind of wooden lock, figured and described in the Introduction to my work on the Modern Egyptians:] what is first described above is so called because it is broad, like the reptile so termed; and also كَتِيفَةٌ, because it is broad, like a كَتِف [or shoulder-blade]: pl. ضَبَّاتٌ and ضِبَابٌ. The ضَبَّة of a knife is The جُزْءَة [thereof; app. meaning a ferrule, or similar thing, affixed around the handle, next the blade, like the band of metal thus called which is affixed around a cracked vessel ; though جُزْءَةٌ generally means the “ handle ” itself]: thus called because it strengthens, or binds, the handle (تَشُدُّ النِّصَابَ).
4 See also ضَبٌّ, last sentence.
5 And see ضَبِيبٌ.

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