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شَرِيجَةٌ

Root: شرج

Full Definition

شَرِيجَةٌ A thing that is woven of palm-leaves and the like, in which are carried melons and other things of the like kind: pl. شَرَائِجُ.
2 A door, or a thing like a door, made of reeds, or canes, for a shop.
3 A cage, or coop, (جَدِيلَة,) of reeds, or canes, made for pigeons.
4 And The sinew with which the feathers of an arrow are attached: if it is feathered by means of glue, the glue is called رُومَةٌ.
5 [Also, accord. to Golius, as on the authority of Meyd, The tie, or band, of a book.]
6 See also شَرِيجٌ, in two places.
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