ثقف

ثِقَافٌ ثقاف Skill, and intelligence, or sagacity; as also ↓ ثُقُوفَةٌ. (TA.) -A2- Also An instrument with which spears are straightened, (S, K, TA,) and bows also, (TA,) and [ other ] crooked things; (JK, Mgh, TA;) made of iron: (JK, TA:) or a strong piece of wood, a cubit in length, having at its extremity a hole large enough to admit the bow, [ or the spear ], which is inserted into it, and pinched and pressed in the part that requires this to be done until it becomes in the state that is desired; but this is not done to bows nor to spears until they have been greased, and prepared with fire, or exposed thereto so as to have become altered in colour: (AHn, TA:) the pl. [of pauc.] is أَثْقِفَةٌ and [of mult.] ثُقُفٌ. (JK, TA.) ― -b2- [Also The handle of a shield of the kind called حَجَفَة: see اـِخَاذَةٌ.]