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1 نَدَفَ ذ [He separated and loosened cotton by means of a bow and a kind of wooden mallet, by striking the string of the bow with the mallet: see حَلَجَ; and حَرَنَ] he beat cotton with the ↓ مِنْدَف , (S, Msb, * K,) also called ↓ مِنْدَفَة , i. e., his wooden implement with which he strikes the bowstring, that it [the cotton] might become fine. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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