قِدْحٌ
Root: قدح
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قِدْحٌ
An arrow, [i. e.] the pared wood, or rod, of an arrow, before it has been furnished with feathers and a head: or an arrow when straightened, and fit to be feathered and headed: (T, voce بَرِىٌّ, q. v.:) or a rod that has attained the desired state of growth, and been pruned, and cut according to the required length for an arrow: and [particularly] such as is used in the game called
المَيْسِر: pl. قِدَاحٌ, a pl. of mult., and [of pauc., and accord. to the L of قِدْحٌ in the last of the senses expl. above,] أَقْدُحُ and أَقْدَاحٌ and أَقَادِيحُ, which last is a pl. pl. [i. e. pl. of أَقْدَاحٌ]. [One says, in speaking of the arrows used in the game called ضَرَبَ بِالقِدَاحِ المَيْسِر, and ضَرَبَ القِدَاحَ: and in speaking of the two arrows used in practising sortilege, ضَرَبَ بِالقِدْحَيْنِ: see art. ضرب, p. 1778, col. iii.] صَدَقَنِى وَسْمَ قِدْحِهِ
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