خزق

مِخْزَقٌ مخزق A small stick, (JK, K,) with a pointed end, (JK,) or having at its end a sharp nail, (K,) that is with the seller of full-grown unripe dates for date-stones [which are used as food for camels]: (JK, K:) he has many مَخَازِق [pl. of مِخْزَقٌ]; and a boy comes to him with date-stones, which he takes from him on the condition that he shall strike with the مخزق a certain number of times and have as many of the dates as become thus transfixed for him, whether many or few, but nothing if he miss. (K.)