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شَيَمٌ

Root: شيم

Full Definition

شَيَمٌ : see 1, near the end.

def.2 Also Any land, or ground, in which one has not yet dug, remaining in its [original] hard state, so that the digging therein is more difficult [than elsewhere] to the digger.
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