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ثَلِبٌ ثلب : see ثِلْبٌ. ― -b2- Also, applied to a spear, (S, M, A, K, but in a copy of the A written ↓ ثِلْبٌ ,) Much notched, or broken in the edges [of the head]: (S, M, K:) or weak, or weak and soft. (A.) You say ثِلْبٌ عَلَى ثِلْبٍ وَبِيَدِهِ ثَلِبٌ [An extremely old, or old and weak, man, whose teeth are much broken, upon a camel in the like condition, and having in his hand a spear that is much notched, or weak, or weak and soft]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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