إِشْفًى

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إِشْفًى An instrument for perforating; a thing pertaining to the makers or sewers of boots or shoes or sandals &c.; [i. e.] the awl used by them: and the instrument with which leather, or skin, is sewed: or, accord. to ISk, it is [an instrument used] for water-skins and water-bags and the like; and the مِخْصَف is for sandals: [see also art. اشف:] masc. and fem.: pl. أَشَافٍ.
2 Th mentions the saying, إِنْ لَاطَمْتَهُ لَاطَمْتَ الإِشْفَى [if thou contend with him in slapping, thou wilt do so with the اشفى]; meaning that when one does so, it will be against himself.
3 And إِشْفَى المِرْفَقِ, a phrase used by a poet, means Sharp in the elbow.

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