حظر

حَظِيرَةٌ حظيره حظيرة An enclosure of a thing, of wood, or of canes or reeds: (K:) [ a kind of pen :] an enclosure for camels, (S, Mgh,) made of trees, to protect them from the cold and wind; (S;) as also ↓ حِظَارٌ: (S, K:) an enclosure for sheep or goats, &c., made of trees, to confine and protect them: pl. حَظَائِرُ and حِظَارٌ: (Msb:) Az heard the Arabs apply the term ↓ حَظَارٌ, with fet-h [to the ح, to a wall made of trees placed one upon another to form a protection for camels or sheep or goats from the cold of the north wind in winter. (TA.) The pl. حَظَائرُ is met. applied, by the poet El-Marrár Ibn-Munkidh, to (tropical:) [ Enclosures of ] palm-trees. (TA.) [Hence,] حَظِيرَةٌ القُدْسِ (assumed tropical:) Paradise: (K:) occurring in a trad. (TA.) And هَوَ نَكِدُ الحَظِيرَةِ (tropical:) He is a person of little good, or of no good: (S, K:) or niggardly, tenacious, penurious, or avaricious. (A.) ― -b2- Also A place in which dates are dried: (K:) of the dial. of Nejd: as also حَضِيرَةٌ and حَصِيرَةٌ. (TA.)