حِقَاءٌ

in one sense pointed out above; and of which it is also a plural, as well as of حَقْوَةٌ.

Also The cord, or the like, with which the horse-cloth is bound upon the belly of the horse when he is made to run a heat or two heats and then covered over to make him sweat and to reduce his fat, [see 1 in article حنذ,] by way of preparing him for racing or the like. (TA.)