فلق

فَلَقَةٌ ذ [signifies, in the present day, A thick staff, to the ends of which are attacked the two ends of a rope, by means whereof a man's legs are secured, between the rope and the staff, when he is bastinaded; and it is also called ↓ فَلَقٌ: this may perhaps be meant by its being said in the TA, on the authority of Lh, that الفَلَقَةُ signifies الخَشَبَةُ; as also ↓ الفَلْقَةُ].