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مِخْزَقٌ

Root: خزق

Full Definition

مِخْزَقٌ A small stick, with a pointed end, or having at its end a sharp nail, that is with the seller of full-grown unripe dates for date-stones [which are used as food for camels]: he has many مَخَازِق [pl. of مِخْزَقٌ]; and a boy comes to him with date-stones, which he takes from him on the condition that he shall strike with the مخزق a certain number of times and have as many of the dates as become thus transfixed for him, whether many or few, but nothing if he miss.
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