غَبِيطٌ

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غَبِيطٌ A [camel's saddle of the kind called] رَحْل, for women, upon which the [vehicle called] هَوْدَج is bound: or an elegant kind of رَحْل, depressed in its middle: or a vehicle like the pads (أُكُف [in the CK, erroneously, اَكُفّ]) of the [species of camels called] بَخَاتِىّ, which is tented over with a [framework such as is called] شِجَاز, and is for women of birth: or, as some say, of which the pad (قَتَب) is made not in the [usual] make of pads (أَقْتَاب): or a رحل of which the pad (قَتَب) and the [curved wooden parts called] أَحْنَآء are one [i. e., app., conjoined]: pl. غُبُطٌ. The pl. is also applied to the pieces of wood in camels' saddles; and to such are likened Persian bows, because of their curvature.
2 [Hence,] Depressed land or ground: or a wide and even tract of land of which the two extremities are elevated, like the form of the camel's saddle so called, of which the middle is depressed: also a channel of water furrowed in a tract such as is termed قُفّ, like a valley in width, having between it and another such channel meadows and herbage: pl. as above.

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