ثِقَافٌ
Root: ثقف
Full Definition
ثِقَافٌ
Skill, and intelligence, or sagacity; as also
ثُقُوفَةٌ .
def.2 Also An instrument with which spears are straightened, and bows also, and [other] crooked things; made of iron: or a strong piece of wood, a cubit in length, having at its extremity a hole large enough to admit the bow, [or the spear], which is inserted into it, and pinched and pressed in the part that requires this to be done until it becomes in the state that is desired; but this is not done to bows nor to spears until they have been greased, and prepared with fire, or exposed thereto so as to have become altered in colour: the pl. [of pauc.] is أَثْقِفَةٌ and [of mult.] ثُقُفٌ.
2 [Also The handle of a shield of the kind called حَجَفَة: see إِخَاذَةٌ.]
def.2 Also An instrument with which spears are straightened, and bows also, and [other] crooked things; made of iron: or a strong piece of wood, a cubit in length, having at its extremity a hole large enough to admit the bow, [or the spear], which is inserted into it, and pinched and pressed in the part that requires this to be done until it becomes in the state that is desired; but this is not done to bows nor to spears until they have been greased, and prepared with fire, or exposed thereto so as to have become altered in colour: the pl. [of pauc.] is أَثْقِفَةٌ and [of mult.] ثُقُفٌ.
2 [Also The handle of a shield of the kind called حَجَفَة: see إِخَاذَةٌ.]
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