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جَرُورٌ جرور (tropical:) A female that exceeds the [usual] time of pregnancy. (A.) (tropical:) A she-camel that withholds her fœtus in her womb, after the completion of the year, a month, or two months, or forty days only; (K, * TA;) or, three months after the year: they are the most generous of camels that do so: none do so but those that usually bring forth in the season called الرَّبِيع (المَرَابِيع); not those that usually bring forth in the season called الصَّيْف (المَصَايِيف): and only those do so that are red [or brown], and such as are of a white hue intermixed with red (الصُّهْب), and such as are ash-coloured: never, or scarcely ever, such as are of a dark gray colour without any admixture of white, because of the thickness of their skins, and the narrowness of their insides, and the hardness of their flesh. (IAar, TA. [See also 1: and see خَصُوفٌ.]) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that is made to incline to, and to suckle, a young one not her own; her own being about to die, they bound its fore legs to its neck, and put upon it a piece of rag, in order that she might know this piece of rag, which they then put upon another young one; after which they stopped up her nostrils, and did not unclose them until the latter young one had sucked her, and she perceived from it the odour of her milk. (L.) ― -b3- Also, applied to a horse, (S, A, K,) and a camel, (K,) (tropical:) That refuses to be led; refractory: (S, A, K:) of the measure فَعُولٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; or it may be in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ: (Az, TA:) or a slow horse, either from fatigue or from shortness of step: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) pl. جُرُرٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) A woman crippled; or affected by a disease that deprives her of the power of walking: (Sh, K:) because she is dragged upon the ground. (Sh, TA.) ― -b5- بِئْرٌ جَرُورٌ (tropical:) A deep well; (Sh, S, K;) from which the water is drawn by means of the سَانِيَة [q. v.], (S, A,) and by means of the pulley and the hands; like مَتُوحٌ and نَزُوعٌ: (A:) or a well from which the water is drawn [by a man] upon a camel [to the saddle of which one end of the wellrope is attached]; so called because its bucket is drawn upon the edge of the mouth thereof, by reason of its depth. (As, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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