Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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مِطْمَرٌ ذ The builder's زِيج, (S, O,) also called إِِمَامٌ and تُرٌّ; (O;) [i. e.,] like these two words, it signifies the cord which the builder extends to make even, thereby, the row of stones or bricks of the building; (T in art. ام;) the builder's cord, or line, with which he proportions (K, TA) the building; (TA;) as also ↓ مِطْمَارٌ : (K, TA:) ↓ the مِطْمَار in the dial. of the people of El-Hijáz is the شَاقُول, (O,) which is a wooden implement, used by the sowers of the land at El-Basrah, (Lth, K, TA, all in art. شقل,) two cubits long, (Lth and TA ibid.,) or a staff a cubit long, (A and TA in art. بقل,) having upon its head [or rather end] a زُجّ [or pointed iron], (Lth and K and TA in art. شقل, and A and TA in art. بقل,) upon which one of them puts the end of a rope, and then he sticks it in the ground, and keeps it in its place firmly by stretching the rope [app. for the purpose of making even a row of seeds or the like]. (Lth and TA in art. شقل.) Hence, (O,) أَقِمِ المِطْمَرَ, said to one relating a trad., means (tropical:) Rectify thou the tradition, and correct its expressions, (O, K, TA,) and trim it, and be veracious in it. (O, TA.) And ↓ هُوَ يَطْمُرُ عَلَى مِطْمَارِ أَبِيهِ, expl. in the first paragraph. (A, K. *)