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بَلْطٌ بلط بلطة and ↓ بُلْطٌ [An axe;] i. q. مِخْرَطٌ; (K, TA;) i. e. the iron instrument with which the خَرَّاط barks and planes (يَخْرِطُ) [a branch of a tree]: an Arabic word: the vulgar call it ↓ بَلْطَةٌ [now mostly applied to a battle-axe; in Turkish بَالْتَهْ]. (TA.) AHn says, An Arab of the desert quoted to me, “ فَا@لْبَلْطُ يَبْرِى حِيَدَ الفَرْفَارِ
” [And the axe pares off the knobs, or knots, of the tree called farfár]: حَيْدَةٌ [the sing. of حِيَدٌ] signifying a knob (سِلْعَة) in a tree; or a knot; which is cut off, and whereof vessels are shaped out, so that they are variegated and beautiful. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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