حد

حَدَّادٌ حداد A door-keeper: (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, K:) so called because he prevents men from entering. (Mgh, L.) ― -b2- A keeper of a prison: (S, Mgh, K:) because he prevents persons from going out, or because he works the iron of the shackles. (S. [See what follows.]) ― -b3- The person who inflicts the punishment termed حَدٌّ: so in the saying, أُجْرَةٌ الحَدَّادِ عَلَى السَّارِقِ [ The pay of the inflicter of the حدّ is to be imposed upon the thief ]; or, as some say, the meaning here is, the keeper of the prison, because, in general, he has the charge of the amputation; but the former meaning is the more probable, and more obvious. (Mgh.) ― -b4- A seller of wine; a vintner: because he withholds his wine until he obtains for it a price that contents him: so in the following verse of ElAashà: فَقُمْنَا وَلَمَّا يَصِحْ دِيكُنَا اـِلَى جَوْنَةٍ عِنْدَ حَدَّادِهَا [ And we arose, when our cock had not yet crowed, to a wine-jar smeared with pitch, in the possession of its seller ]. (S, L.) ― -b5- A blacksmith; a worker in iron. (Mgh, L, K.) A maker of coats of mail. (TA.)