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عُقَّافَةٌ ذ A piece of wood [or a stick] crooked [or hooked] at the head thereof, with which a thing is extended, (يُمَدّ, so in the O and L and copies of the K,) or drawn, or pulled, towards one, (يُحْجَنُ, so in the CK,) like the مِحْجَن [q. v.]: (O, L, K:) or it is [a part, app. the crooked, or hooked, head,] of the مِحْجَن: (Msb:) and some say that it is a صَوْلَجَان [q. v.]. (TA.) [In the present day it is applied to A hook, or a small hook.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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