شَبَكَةٌ
1.
The شَرَكَة [meaning net] of the
صَيَّاد [i. e. fisherman, and fowler or sportsman]; (K;) the مِصْيَدَة, (Lth, O, TA,) or instrument of
الصَّيْد, (S,) that is used in the water [i. e. for catching fish] and on the land [i. e. for catching fowls or wild animals]; (Lth, O, * TA;) applied by some peculiarly to the مِصْيَدَة
of the water; (TA;) and
شُبَّاكٌ signifies the same: (K:) plural of the former شِبَاكٌ (S, Msb, K) and شَبَكَاتٌ (Msb) and [coll. gen. n.]
شَبَكٌ: (Msb, K:) and the plural of
شُبَّاكٌ is شَبَابِيكُ (K.)
2.
3.
Also Wells near together, (K, TA,) of which the water is near [to the mouths], communicating [apparently by filtration] one with another: so according to El-Kutabee: (TA:) or wells separate, one from another: (M and L in article مأد:) and, (K,) or as some say, (TA,) wells (O, K, TA) that are open to view, (K, TA,) dug in a rugged place, of the depth of the stature of a man, and twice and thrice that measure, in which the rain-water becomes retained: so called because of their mutual proximity, and confusedness: a single one of them is not called شَبَكَةٌ; for this is only a name for a plural number; but the plural شِبَاكٌ is applied to aggregates thereof in sundry places: (O, TA:) or شِبَاكٌ, (S,) or شَبَكَةٌ, (Msb,) signifies wells that are numerous and near together in a [tract of] land; (S, Msb;) form اِشْتِبَاكُ
النُّجُومِ: (Msb:) or, according to As, شَبَكَةٌ signifies wells, or other pits or hollows dug in the ground, that are numerous; and the plural is شِبَاكٌ. (IDrd, O.)
4.
And A [tract of] land in which are many wells, (K, TA,) not tracts that exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage: (TA:) or [the plural] شِبَاكٌ signifies places, of the earth, that are not such as exude water and produce salt, nor such as give growth to plants, or herbage; such as the
شِبَاك
of El-Basrah. (Lth, O.)
5.
And The burrow of the [field-rat called] جُرَذ: (K, TA:) or the burrows thereof, which are near together: plural شِبَاكٌ. (TA.)