عِلْبَةٌ

A thick knot of wood, (IAar, O, K, TA,) otherwise explained as a great branch of a tree, (TA,) whereof is made the مِقْطَرَة, (IAar, O, K, TA,) which is a wooden thing having in it holes adapted to the size of the legs of the persons confined [by it, i. e. a kind of stocks]: (TA:) plural عِلَبٌ. (IAar, O, TA.) A poet says,

فِى رِجْلِهِ عِلْبَةٌ خَشْنَاءُ مِنْ قَرَظٍ

[Upon his leg was a rough kind of stocks of the wood of the tree called karadh]. (O, TA.)