خُطَّافٌ

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خُطَّافٌ [The swallow; thus called in the present day;] a certain bird, well known; a certain black bird; the عُصْفُور [or passerine bird] which the common people call عُصْفُورُ الجَنَّةِ [the عصفور of Paradise]: pl. خَطَاطِيفُ. [See also خُشَّافٌ.]
2 The bent, or crooked, piece of iron which is on each side of the sheave of a pulley, and in which is the pin whereon the sheave turns: it confines the sheave on each side: that which is of wood is termed قَعْوٌ. Also Any crooked, or hooked, iron: pl. as above. [An iron hook: a grapple: a grapnel: and the like.] The خُطَّافَانِ of a bit are The two bent pieces of iron in the مِسْحَل and the شَكِيمَة, on the right and left. And خَطَاطِيفُ signifies The claws, or talons, of a beast or bird of prey; as being likened to a hooked iron.
3 A wicked thief: so in the saying of Abu-nNejm, وَٱسْتَصْحَبُوا كُلَّ عِمٍ أُمِّىِّ مِنْ كُلِّ خُطَّافٍ وَأَعْرَابِىِّ [And they took as companions every blind illiterate man, of every wicked thief and Arab of the desert]. يَا ٱبْنَ خُطَّافٍ [app. meaning O son of a wicked thief] was said by a woman to Jereer, in derision.
4 See also the paragraph next preceding this.
5 A mark made with a hot iron upon a camel, like the خُطَّاف of the sheave of a pulley.
6 The part, of a horse, which is the place of the heel of the rider.

def.2 Also pl. of خَاطِفٌ. (TA. See الخَطَّافُ.)

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