جُلَاهِقٌ
Root: جلهق
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جُلَاهِقٌ
Bullets, syn. بُنْدُقٌ, or rounded things, made of clay, which one shoots [from a cross-bow]: n. un. with ة: a Persian word, arabicized; in Persian جُلَهْ, meaning “ a ball of thread; ” pl. جُلَهَا; applied also to “ a weaver; ” i. e., جلها is so applied. Hence, قَوْسُ
الجُلَاهِقِ [The cross-bow for shooting bullets].
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