دَرِيْيءَةٌ

A ring by aiming at which one learns to pierce or thrust [with the spear] (S, M, K) and to shoot: (T, * M, K:) said by As to be with ء: (S:) and also called وَتِيرَةٌ. (S in article وتر.) 'Amr Ibn-Maadee-Kerib says,

ظَلِلْتُ كَأَنِّى لِلرِّمَاحِ دَرِيْيءَةٌ

أُقَاتِلُ عَنْ أَبْنَاءَ جَرْمٍ وَفَرَّتِ

[I passed the day as though I were a ring for the spears to be aimed at, fighting in defence of the sons of Jarm, when they had fled]. (T, S, M. [See also Ham p. 75, where it is written دَرِيَّةٌ.])

Also A camel, (T, S,) or other thing, (S,) or anything, (M, K,) by which one conceals himself (T, S, M, K) from the wild animals, (T,) or from the objects of the chase, (S, * M, K,) in order that they may be circumvented, (T, S, M, K,) so that when the man is able to shoot, or cast, he does so: (T, S:) like ذَرِيعَةٌ: (S in article ذرع:) according to AZ, it is with ء, (S,) because the درييءة is driven (تُدْرَأُ, i. e. تُدْفَعُ,) towards the objects of the chase: (T, * S:) but IAth says that it is دَرِيَّةٌ, without ء; and that it signifies an animal by means of which the sportsman conceals himself, leaving it to pasture with the wild animals until they have become familiar with it and so rendered accessible to him, when he shoots, or casts, at them: (TA:) the plural of دَرِيْيءَةٌ is دَرَايَا and دَرَايءيءُ with two hemzehs, each of them extr. [with respect to analogy]. (M, TA.)