عقم

8 الاِعْتِقَامُ ذ signifies The digging a well, and, when one has nearly reached the water, digging a small well, (S, K, TA,) in the middle of the former, (TA,) of sufficient dimensions for one's finding the flavour of the water; when, if it be sweet, the rest of it is dug, (S, K, TA,) and made wide; otherwise it is abandoned. (TA.) ― -b2- Also The entering into, or upon, an affair. (TA.) ― -b3- And The overcoming [another] in a game of hazard; syn. القَمْرُ. (TA.)