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فَقِيصٌ

Root: فقص

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فَقِيصٌ as an epithet: see its fem. voce مَفْقُوصَةٌ.

def.2 Also An iron thing like a ring, among the apparatus of the tiller of land, which clasps together [app. at the upper parts, so as to form a support like a trevet, for his provisions &c.,] several separate sticks, or pieces of wood, set over against one another.
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