Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَأْصِرٌ

Root: اصر

Full Definition

مَأْصِرٌ and مَأْصَرٌ A place in which a person or thing is confined, shut up, or imprisoned: pl. مَآصِرٌ; for which the vulgar say, مَعَاصِرُ.
2 Also, the former, or مَاصِرٌ; either of the measure مَفْعِلٌ from الأَصْرُ, or of the measure فَاعِلٌ from المِصْرُ; A thing intervening between two other things and preventing the passage from one to the other; a barrier: a rope across a road or river, preventing the passage of travellers and ships or boats, for the taking of the tithes from them.


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