شجب

مِشْجَبٌ ذ Pieces of wood, (T, Msb, K,) bound together [ at the top ], upon which clothes are spread, (T, Msb,) or upon which clothes are put; as also ↓ شِجَابٌ; (K;) of which latter the pl. is شُجُبٌ: (TA: [see this last word above:]) pieces of wood, or sticks, of which the heads are joined together, and the feet parted asunder, upon which clothes are put, and sometimes the water-skins are hung thereon for the purpose of cooling the water: (Nh, TA:) or a piece of wood upon which clothes are put: (S:) Suh says, in the R, that they used to call the water-skin شَجْبٌ, and they used not to hold it otherwise than suspended, so that مِشْجَبٌ properly signifies the piece of wood, or stick, to which the water-skin is suspended: then they amplified the application of this word so as to call thereby the thing upon which clothes are suspended: (MF, TA:) the pl. is مَشَاجِبُ. (A.)