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مَأْطُورَةٌ ذ A bow. (A.) ― -b2- A milking-vessel of skin (عُلْبَةٌ) for the head of which a twig is bent into the form of a hoop, and put round, after which its lip is covered; (K, TA;) or, sometimes, the edges of the skin of the علبة are folded upon the hoop-formed twig, and dry upon it. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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