عكم

عِكْمٌ ذ A burden that is borne on one side of a camel or other beast, made equiponderant to another burden; syn. عِدْلٌ; (S, Mgh, K;) i. e. one of two such burdens: (S:) so called as long as containing goods: two such burdens are bound upon the two sides of the [women's camel-vehicle called] هَوْدَج: or, accord. to A'Obeyd, a burden, and a burden such as is described above, containing receptables of various sorts of food, and goods: (TA:) pl. أَعْكَامٌ; (Az, M, K;) accord. to the M, the only pl.; but accord. to Az, عُكُومٌ also. (TA.) كَعِكْمَىِ العَيْرِ [ Like the two equiponderant burdens of the ass ] is a prov. applied to two men who are equals in eminence or nobility. (TA.) And one says, وَقَعَ المُصْطَرِعَانِ عِكْمَىْ عَيْرٍ, and كَعِكْمَىْ عَيْرٍ, meaning The two [ men wrestling ] fell together, neither of them having thrown down the other. (TA. [See also عِدْلٌ, last sentence.]) ― -b2- Also A bundle (كَارَة, K, TA) of clothes [&c., put in one piece of cloth and tied up ]: (TA:) pl. عُكُومٌ. (K.) See also 1, first sentence. ― -b3- And A نَمَط [q. v.] in which a woman puts what she lays up for a time of need (ذَخِيرَتَهَا). (S, K. [See also عَكْمٌ.]) ― -b4- See also عِكَامٌ. ― -b5- Also The بَكْرَة [i. e. pulley, or sheave of the pulley, ] of a well. (K.)