عِكْمٌ

A burden that is borne on one side of a camel or other beast, made equiponderant to another burden; synonym عِدْلٌ; (S, Mgh, K;) i. e. one of two such burdens: (S:) so called as long as containing goods: two such burdens are bound upon the two sides of the [women's camel-vehicle called] هَوْدَج: or, according to A'Obeyd, a burden, and a burden such as is described above, containing receptables of various sorts of food, and goods: (TA:) plural أَعْكَامٌ; (Az, M, K;) according to the M, the only plural; but according to Az, عُكُومٌ also. (TA.) كَعِكْمَىِ العَيْرِ [Like the two equiponderant burdens of the ass] is a prov. applied to two men who are equals in eminence or nobility. (TA.) And one says, وَقَعَ المُصْطَرِعَانِ عِكْمَىْ عَيْرٍ, and كَعِكْمَىْ عَيْرٍ, meaning The two [men wrestling] fell together, neither of them having thrown down the other. (TA. [See also عِدْلٌ, last sentence.])

Also A bundle (كَارَة, K, TA) of clothes [&c., put in one piece of cloth and tied up]: (TA:) plural عُكُومٌ. (K.) See also 1, first sentence.

And A نَمَط [q. v.] in which a woman puts what she lays up for a time of need (ذَخِيرَتَهَا). (S, K. [See also عَكْمٌ.])