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جِعَارٌ جعار A certain mark made with a hot iron upon [the part called] the جَاعَرَتَانِ: (K:) accord. to the Tedhkireh of Aboo-'Alee, one of the marks, so made, of camels. (Ibn-Habeeb, TA.) -A2- A rope which a man who waters ties to a stake, and then binds upon his waist, when he descends into a well, lest he should fall into it: (S:) or a rope which a drawer of water binds upon his waist, (K, TA,) when he descends into a well, (TA,) lest he should fall into the well; (K, TA;) the end being in the hand of another man, who, if he falls, pulls him up with it. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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