مِحْوَرٌ

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مِحْوَرٌ The pin of wood, or, as is sometimes the case, of iron, on which the sheave of a pulley turns; the iron [pin] that unites the bent piece of iron which is on each side of the sheave of a pulley, and in which it [the محور] is inserted, and the sheave itself: and a piece of wood which unites (تَجْمَعُ) the sheave of a large pulley [app. with what is on each side of the latter; for it seems to mean here, also, the pivot]: some say that it is so called because it turns round, returning to the point from which it departed: others, that it is so called because, by its revolving, it is polished so that it becomes white: pl. مَحَاوِرُ. One says, قَلِقَتْ مَحَاوِرُهُ, meaning His circumstances, or affair, or case, became unsettled: from the state of the pin of the sheave of a pulley when it becomes smooth, and the hole becomes large, so that it wabbles.
2 Also A thing of iron upon which turns the tongue of a buckle at the end of a waist-belt.
3 And An iron instrument for cauterizing [app. of a circular form: see 2].
4 And The wooden implement of the baker, or maker of bread, with which he expands the dough, and prepares it, and makes it round, to put it into the hot ashes in which it is baked: so called because of its turning round upon the dough, as being likened to the محور of the sheave of a pulley, and because of its roundness.

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