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كِشَاطٌ

Root: كشط

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كِشَاطٌ : see كُشِطَ.

def.2 The stripped skin of a slaughtered camel. Sometimes the latter is covered over with it; and one says, إِرْفَعْ عَنْهَا كِشَاطَهَا لِأَنْظُرَ إِلَى لَحْمِهَا [Take thou off from it its stripped skin, that I may look at its flesh.]
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