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حَدَأَةٌ ذ (As, S, K) and ↓ حِدَأَةٌ , but the former is the more chaste, (TA,) A double-headed فَأْس [i. e. hoe, or adz, or axe]: (As, S, K:) [a kind of فَأْس used in the present day is a hoe with two heads, one at each end of the handle:] or the head of a فَأْس: and the head of an arrow: (K:) pl. of the former ↓ حَدَأٌ (As, S, K) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.] and حِدَآءٌ, (K, TA, [in the CK حَداءٌ,]) mentioned by AO and As and A 'Obeyd; (TA;) and the pl. of حِدَأَةٌ is ↓ حِدَأٌ (TA) [or rather this, like حَدَأٌ, is a coll. gen. n.]. -A2- See also the next paragraph, in two places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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