حَابِلٌ

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حَابِلٌ One who binds, ties, or makes fast, a rope, or cord. Hence, يَا حَابِلُ ٱذْكُرْ حَلًّا, a prov., meaning O binder, or tyer, of the rope, bear in mind the time of untying.
2 The setter of the snare (حَبَالَة) for game; as also مُحْتَبِلٌ . It is said in a prov., اِخْتَلَطَ الحَابِلُ بِالنَّابِلِ The setter of the snare became confounded with the shooter of the arrows: (TA in art. خلط:) or, in this instance, الحابل signifies the warp; and النابل, the woof. And in another prov., ثَارَ حَابِلُهُمْ عَلَى نَابِلِهِمْ They kindled mischief among themselves: الحابل [properly] signifying the owner of the حِبَالَة; and النابل, the shooter with نَبْل, or the owner of نَبْل: i. e., their case became confused: and sometimes it is applied to a party whose case has become turned from its proper state, and who become roused, or stirred up, one against another. One says also, حَوَّلَ حَابِلَهُ عَلَى نَابِلِهِ He turned it upside down. And اِجْعَلْ حَابِلَهُ نَابِلَهُ, and حَابِلَهُ عَلَى نَابِلِهِ, Turn thou it upside down.
3 An enchanter.

def.2 A [lizard of the kind called] ضَبّ that feeds upon the حُبْلَة [q. v.]; and so a gazelle.

def.3 حَابِلَةٌ: see حُبْلَى.

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