شَذَبٌ

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شَذَبٌ Pieces, or cuttings, of trees; n. un. with ة: or bark of trees: pieces of bark, and pieces of wood, or sticks, or twigs or branches, in a dispersed, or scattered, state; pl. أَشْذَابٌ: what fall from, or of, the branches of a tree, [when it is pruned,] in a dispersed, or scattered, state: or, as some say, the thorns: and the bark: the stumps of the cut branches upon the trunk of a palm-tree, and other portions, which are lopped off; [i. e., also] the branches thereof which are lopped off: and in like manner, as pl. of شَذَبَةٌ, [or rather as a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is with ة,] what are cut off from, or of, the branches of trees, others than palm-trees, i. e. of the straggling branches, such as are not in the choice, or best, part thereof: also the superfluous portions of the straggling extremities of the sprigs of sweet-smelling plants, which are pruned, or cut off.
2 Anything in a scattered, or dispersed, state.
3 Somewhat remaining of herbage [&c.]: (S, A, O, K: [in the first and third of which is added وَهُوَ المَأْكُولُ, app. referring to the herbage of which the remainder is thus called, meaning, “ it being what has been eaten: ”]) pl. as above, i. e. أَشْذَابٌ. One says, فِى الأَرْضِ شَذَبٌ مِنْ كَلَأ In the land is somewhat remaining of herbage. And one says also, بَقِىَ عِنْدَهُ شَذَبٌ مِنْ مَالٍ [There remained in his possession a remnant of property]. And مَا بَقِىَ لَهُ إِلَّا شَذَبٌ مِنَ العَسْكَرِ [There remained not to him save a relic of the army].
4 Also Household goods, or furniture and utensils, consisting of what are termed قُمَاش [q. v., perhaps here meaning the meaner sorts thereof,] &c.: pl. as above.

def.2 And A dam; or thing constructed, or raised, to keep back the water of a torrent.

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