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مِحْلَاجٌ محلاج The thing with which is performed the operation, upon cotton, signified by the verb حَلَجَ: (S, A, K:) or ↓ مِحْلَجٌ is the name of the wooden implement [with which that operation is performed, or] with which cotton is separated, or cleared, from its seeds. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) An implement of wood, (K,) or of stone, (TA,) with which a cake of bread is expanded; (K;) a rolling-pin for dough: (A, TA:) pl. مَحَالِجُ and مَحَالِيجُ. (TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) A bull's horn. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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