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طَوِىٌّ ذ A bundle of بَزّ [meaning cloths or stuffs or garments, or a kind, or kinds, thereof: so called as being folded together]: thus in the Tekmileh [and in copies of the K]: in [some of] the copies of the K, مِنَ البُرْدِ in the place of من البَزِّ. (TA.) ― -b2- And A well that is cased (S, M, Msb, * TA) with stones, or with baked bricks; as also ↓ طَىٌّ : (TA:) of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: (Msb:) it is masc., but may be made fem. to accord. with the meaning [i. e. بِئْرٌ]: (M, TA:) pl. أَطْوَآءٌ: accord. to the K, ↓ طَوِيَّةٌ signifies a well; but [SM says] I have not seen that any one has mentioned this. (TA.) -A2- And A سَاعَة [meaning short portion] of the night: (K:) one says, أَتَيْتُهُ بَعْدَ طَوِىٍّ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ [I came to him after a short portion of the night]: mentioned by ISd. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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