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حَطَبٌ حطب Firewood; the portions of trees that are prepared for fuel: (M, A, K:) pl. أَحْطَابٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, because enmity is kindled with it like as fire is with حَطَب [properly so called], (Har p. 209,) (tropical:) Calumny, or slander; (A, Mgh, TA;) also termed الحَطَبُ الرَّطْبُ. (TA.) The former is said to have this meaning in the Kur cxi. 4: (Mgh, TA:) or to mean thorns, which the woman there spoken of is related to have been in the habit of throwing in the way of Mohammad. (TA.) You say, يَحْمِلُ الحَطَبَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ, meaning (tropical:) He goes about with calumny, or slander, among, or between, the people. (A.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) The prunings of a grape-vine; (S, * A;) and so ↓ حِطَابٌ : (A:) the dry portions of a grape-vine that are of no use but for fire: (Mgh:) ― -b4- the latter is explained by ISh as meaning the prunings that are cut off each year from the upper, or uppermost, portions of a grape-vine. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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