Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حِقَآءٌ

Root: حقو

Full Definition

حِقَآءٌ : see حَقْوٌ, with which it is syn. in one sense pointed out above; and of which it is also a pl., as well as of حَقْوَةٌ.
2 Also The cord, or the like, with which the horse-cloth is bound upon the belly of the horse when he is made to run a heat or two heats and then covered over to make him sweat and to reduce his fat, [see 1 in art. حنذ,] by way of preparing him for racing or the like.

def.2 See also حَقْوَةٌ.


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