بَلْطٌ

and ↓ بُلْطٌ [An axe;] i. q. مِخْرَطٌ; (K, TA;) i. e. the iron instrument with which the خَرَّاط barks and planes (يَخْرِطُ) [a branch of a tree]: an Arabic word: the vulgar call it ↓ بَلْطَةٌ [now mostly applied to a battle-axe; in Turkish بَالْتَهْ]. (TA.) AHn says, An Arab of the desert quoted to me,

فَالْبَلْطُ يَبْرِى حِيَدَ الفَرْفَارِ

[And the axe pares off the knobs, or knots, of the tree called farfár]: حَيْدَةٌ [the singular of حِيَدٌ] signifying a knob (سِلْعَة) in a tree; or a knot; which is cut off, and whereof vessels are shaped out, so that they are variegated and beautiful. (TA.)