نكث

نِكْثٌ ذ What is undone, to be spun again, (A, Msb,) of the garments called أَكْسِيَة, and of the stuff of the tents called أَخْبِيَة: (A:) pl. أَنْكَاثٌ: (Msb:) or threads of an old and worn-out stuff, of wool or hair, untwisted, and mixed with new wool [or hair ], and beaten with مَطاَرِق, and spun a second time: or old and worn-out thread of wool or common hair or the soft hair called وَبَر; so called because it is untwisted, and twisted again: (TA:) it is when the old and worn-out materials of the garments called اكسية (and of the tents called اخبية, S) are undone, to be spun again. (S, K.) [SM seems to have understood, from the expl. in the S and K, that نِكْثٌ is an inf. n.; for he adds,] the subst. is ↓ نَكِيثَةٌ: (TA:) [i. e., this last word has the signification assigned above to نِكْثٌ, from the A and Msb]. ― -b2- هَىِ تَغْزِلُ النِّكْثَ, and نَكِيثٌ, She spins what has been undone, to be spun again, &c. (A.) ― -b3- حَبْلٌ نِكْثٌ, and ↓ نَكِيثٌ, (TA,) and أَنْكَاثٌ, and ↓ مَنْكُوثٌ, (K,) A rope undone, or untwisted, (K, TA,) at its end. (TA.)