وَاسِطٌ
Root: وسط
Full Definition
2 وَاسِطُ الكُورِ, or الرَّحْلِ, and , and , (Lh, M, [or perhaps , corresponding to ,]) The fore-part of the camel's saddle: accord. to Lth, the part, of the camel's saddle, which is between the تَادِمَة and the آخِرَة; but this is a mistake; for the واسط of the camel's saddle is one of the شَرْخَانِ, which are its two extremities, [or upright pieces of wood,] like the قَرَبُوسُانِ of the horse's saddle, between which the rider sits; it is the extremity which is next to the head of the camel; the tall forepart next to the breast of the rider, against which the breast of the rider sometimes strikes; (TA, in art. نحز;) the آخِرةَ being the extremity which is next to the tail of the camel; the hinder part of the saddle, which is its tall and broad piece of wood that is against (تُحَاذِى) the head of the rider: the former of these is not called واسط as being a middle part between the آخرة and the قادمة, as Lth says; nor has the camel's saddle any [part called] قادمة.
3 الوَاسِطُ also signifies The piece of wood that is in the middle, between the two pieces called the عِضَادَتَانِ, in the yoke that is upon the neck of a bull which draws a cart or the like. (L in art. عضذ.)
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