Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَبَّةٌ ذ [an inf. n. un. of ضَبَّ: as such signifying] A single bleeding of the gum [&c.]. (Ham pp. 28 and 274.) ― -b2- See also 1, last sentence but one. -A2- Also A single [lizard of the species termed] ضَبّ [q. v.]. (S, O, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And The skin of a [lizard of the species termed] ضَبّ, tanned for clarified butter (K, TA) to be put into it. (TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) A broad piece of iron with which a door (or wood, TA) is clamped or strengthened (يُضَبَّبُ): (S, Mgh, O, K, TA:) or a piece of iron or brass or the like, with which a vessel is repaired: (Msb:) [a word still used in these senses; commonly applied to a flat piece of iron or the like, which is nailed across a crack in a wooden vessel or a similar thing: and a band of metal which is affixed around a cracked vessel: (see an ex. voce عَصَبَ:) also to a kind of wooden lock, figured and described in the Introduction to my work on the Modern Egyptians:] what is first described above is so called because it is broad, like the reptile so termed; and also كَتِيفَةٌ, because it is broad, like a كَتِف [or shoulder-blade]: (AM, TA:) pl. ضَبَّاتٌ (A, Msb, TA) and ضِبَابٌ. (A, TA.) The ضَبَّة of a knife is The جُزْءَة [thereof; app. meaning a ferrule, or similar thing, affixed around the handle, next the blade, like the band of metal thus called which is affixed around a cracked vessel (as mentioned above); though جُزْءَةٌ generally means the “ handle ” itself]: thus called because it strengthens, or binds, the handle (تَشُدُّ النِّصَابَ). (A, TA.) ― -b4- See also ضَبٌّ, last sentence. ― -b5- And see ضَبِيبٌ.