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بِدَادٌ

Root: بد

Full Definition

بِدَادٌ : see بُدٌّ.

def.2 Also A stuffed lining put beneath a [camel's saddle of the kind called] قَتَب, to defend the animal's back from being hurt thereby: there is one such on each side: or, of a horse's saddle, and of a قَتَب, the stuffed thing, or pad, that is placed beneath, in order that it may not gall the animal's back; as also بَدِيدٌ : or the بِدَادَانِ and are two bags (خَرِيطَتَانِ), which are stuffed, and placed under the curved pieces of wood, in order that the wood may not gall the animal's back; derived from بَدَّ رِجْلَيْهِ “ he parted his legs: ” [see also بَدِيدٌ:] or the بِدَادَانِ of a قَتَب are two things like provender-bags, 'which are stuffed, and bound with strings, or cords, to the pieces of wood called the ظَلِفَات and أَحْنَآء: or they are, to the قَتَب, like the كَرّ to the رَحْل, except that they do not appear before the ظَلِفَة, being only within [it]: [see also حِدْجٌ:] pl. [of pauc.] أَبِدَّةٌ and [of mult.] بَدَائِدُ.
2 Also A piece of felt cloth, that is bound upon a beast which has a galled, or sore, back, cut, or slit, so as to be clear of the galls, or sores.
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