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مِحْلَأَةٌ
A currier's knife, used for shaving the inner surface of the hide: and
the iron instrument, or stone, with which one shaves off the
تِحْلِىء
of a hide, and with which one skins. (TA voce مِحْمَرٌ, q. v.)
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