قِمَاطٌ

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قِمَاطٌ The thing, or wide piece of rag, with which a child is bound in the cradle: or the piece of rag, or wide piece of rag, which is wound upon a child when he is bound in the cradle: pl. قُمُطٌ.
2 A rope with which the legs of a sheep or goat are bound on the occasion of the slaughtering; as also قِمْطٌ : or a rope with which the arms and legs, or hands and feet, of a captive are bound together: pl. as above; and the pl. of قُمُطٌ [probably a mistranscription for قِمْطٌ] is أَقْمَاطٌ.
3 قُمُطٌ also signifies The شُرُط, meaning wide woven ropes, of fibres or leaves of the palm-tree, by which a booth of reeds or canes is bound: or, as some say, the pieces of wood that are upon the outside of a booth of reeds or canes, or in its inside, to which are bound the bundles of reeds or canes that form the roof: or the heads [or extremities] thereof: or قمط, with damm, [app. meaning قُمُطٌ, with damm to the second letter as well as the first, or قُمْطٌ as a contraction of قُمُطٌ, like as كُتْبٌ, accord. to some, is a contraction of كُتُبٌ,] as IAth says, on the authority of Hr, or قِمْطٌ , with kesr, signifies the thing, or rope, of fibres or leaves of the palmtree, with which booths of reeds or canes are bound: and hence مَعَاقِدُ القِمْطِ [the places where such ropes are tied].
4 Also قِمَاطٌ The snares by which one snares men: and [its pl.] قُمُطٌ, accord. to the A, the cords of stratagems or tricks. [Hence,] وَقَعْتُ عَلَى قِمَاطِهِ I became acquainted with his stratagems, or tricks, or his snares by which he snares men. [The explanation of this phrase by Lth is وقعت عَلى بُنُودِهِ: that in the K, فَطِنْتُ بُنُودَهُ: another explanation is given in the TA, which is, فَطِنْتُ لَهُ فى تُؤَدَةٍ: in the JK, فَطَنْتُ بِتُؤَودَةٍ: the right reading in the K and JK seems to be فَطِنْتُ بِبُنُودِهِ: and that of the explanation in the TA mentioned in this sentence is most probably, I think, فَطِنْتُ لَهُ فِى بُنُودِهِ I understood him in his stratagems, &c.]

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