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ثفَالٌ ثفال The thing by which the mill is preserved from the ground; as also ↓ ثُفْلٌ : (M, K:) it is a skin that is spread beneath the hand-mill to preserve the flour from the dust; (T;) a skin, (S, Msb,) or the like, that is put beneath the mill, (Msb,) [i. e.,] which is spread, and whereon is placed the mill, which is turned with the hand, (S,) in order that the flour may fall upon it. (S, Msb.) When the ثفال has another thing to preserve it from the ground, this latter is called the وِفَاض. (M.) Zuheyr says, (T, S, K,) describing war, (T,) “ فَتَعْرُكُكُمْ عَرْكَ الرَّحَىبِثِفَالِهَا
” (T, S, K, *) meaning [And it frets you as frets the mill] when it is with its ثفال: for they do not place a ثفال beneath the mill except when grinding. (K.) ― -b2- Also, (sometimes, S,) The nether, or lower, mill-stone; (S, K;) and so ↓ ثُفَالٌ . (K.) ― -b3- And A ewer; syn. إِِبْرِيقٌ: (IAar, T, M, K:) occurring in a trad. in which mention is made of washing the hand therewith. (T, M.) -A2- See also ثَفَالٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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