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حَرَّاقَةٌ حارق حراق حراقه حراقة A kind of ship, (Lth, S, K, *) [built] at El-Basrah, (K,) in which are engines for throwing fire upon the enemy at sea, or on a large river: (Lth, S, K:) accord. to some, such an engine itself: (ISd, TA:) accord. to the A, [a bark;] a light-going skip: (TA:) [it is often used in this last sense in post-classical works:] pl. حَرَّاقَاتٌ (K) [and حَرَارِيقُ]. ― -b2- Also the former pl., The places of those who fry [meat &c.], and of the makers of charcoal: (Lth, K:) of the dial. of the people of El-Basrah. (Lth, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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