نرج

نَوْرَجٌ ذ (L, K) and ↓ نَيْرَجٌ and ↓ نُورَجٌ, the last of the dial. of El-Yemen, and a word of which there is not the like in Arabic, (L,) A thrashinginstrument, or that with which heaps of wheat, or corn, are thrashed, whether of wood or of iron; (L, K;) or, of iron and wood; (Sifr es-Sa'ádeh;) [ a kind of drag, used, in Egypt and Arabia and some other countries of Western Asia, for the purpose of separating the grain of wheat and barley &c. and cutting the straw, which serves as fodder; it is a machine in the form of a chair fixed upon a sledge, which moves upon small iron wheels, or thin circular plates, generally eleven, fixed to three thick axle-trees, four to the foremost, the same number to the hindmost, and three to the intermediate axle-tree: this machine is drawn, in a circle, by a pair of cows or bulls, their driver being seated upon it, over the corn: pl. [of the first and last words] نَوَارِجُ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, the first and second, A ploughshare. (K.)