علب

عِلْبَةٌ ذ A thick knot of wood, (IAar, O, K, TA,) otherwise expl. as a great branch of a tree, (TA,) whereof is made the مِقْطَرَة, (IAar, O, K, TA,) which is a wooden thing having in it holes adapted to the size of the legs of the persons confined [ by it, i. e. a kind of stocks ]: (TA:) pl. عِلَبٌ. (IAar, O, TA.) A poet says, فِى رِجْلِهِ عِلْبَةٌ خَشْنَاآءُ مِنْ قَرَظٍ [ Upon his leg was a rough kind of stocks of the wood of the tree called karadh ]. (O, TA.)