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جُرَّةٌ جر جره جرة (S, K) and ↓ جَرَّةٌ (K) A small piece of wood, (K,) or a piece of wood about a cubit long, (S,) having a snare at the head, (S, K,) and a cord at the middle, (S,) with which gazelles are caught: (S, K:) when the gazelle is caught in it, he strives with it awhile, and struggles in it, and labours at it, to escape; and when it has overcome him, and he is wearied by it, he becomes still, and remains in it; and this is what is termed [in a prov. mentioned below] his becoming at peace with it: (S, * TA:) or it is a staff, or stick, tied to a snare, which is hidden in the earth, for catching the gazelle; having cords of sinew; when his fore leg enters the snare, the cords of sinew become tied in knots upon that leg; and when he leaps to escape, and stretches out his fore leg, he strikes with that staff, or stick, his other fore leg and his hind leg, and breaks them. (AHeyth, TA.) نَاوَصَ الجُرَّةَ ثُمَّ سَالَمَهَا He struggled with the جرّة and then became at peace with it [see above] is a prov. applied to him who opposes the counsel, or opinion, of a people, and then is obliged to agree: (S, * TA:) or to him who falls into a case, and struggles in it, and then becomes still. (TA.) And it is said in another prov., هُوَ كَالبَاحِثِ عَنِ الجُرَّةِ [He is like him who searches in the earth for the]. (AHeyth, TA.) In the phrase إِِذَا أَفْلَتَتْ مِنْ جُرَّتَيْهَا , in a saying of Ibn-Lisán-el-Hummarah, referring to sheep, [app. meaning When they escape from their two states of danger,] by جرّتيها he means their place of pasture (المَجَرّ) in a severe season [when they are liable to perish], and when they are scattered, or dispersed, by night, and [liable to be] attacked, or destroyed, by the beasts of prey: so says ISk: Az says that he calls their مجر two snares, into which they might fall, and perish. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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