دَاحُولٌ
Root: دحل
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دَاحُولٌ
[an arabicized word from the Pers. دَاخُولْ] A thing which the hunter of gazelles sets up [for the purpose of scaring them into his toil or into the neighbourhood of his place of concealment], consisting of pieces of wood: or a thing which the hunter sets up for [the purpose of scaring] the [wild] asses, and Az adds, and the gazelles, consisting of pieces of wood like short spears stuck in the ground, with some pieces of ragged cloth upon their heads; and sometimes set up at night, for [the purpose of scaring] the gazelles, with the addition of a lighted lamp; [whence] Dhu-r-Rummeh says,
[And they drink water that is altered for the worse in taste and colour, while the stars are like the lamps of the hunter by means of the داحول when he makes their wicks to blaze brightly]: the pl. is دَوَاحِيلُ.وَيَشْرَبْنَ أَجْنًاو النُّجُومُ كَأَنَّهَا مَصَابِيحُ يُذَكِّى ذُبَالَهَا
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