جَرِيْيءَةٌ

A chamber (K, TA) constructed of stones, with a stone placed over its entrance, (TA,) for the purpose of entrapping wild beasts: (K, TA:) the piece of flesh-meat for the wild beast is put in the hinder part of the chamber; and when he enters to take the piece of meat, the stone falls upon the entrance, and closes it: (TA:) plural جَرَايءِىُ (according to some copies of the K,) or جَرَايءِىءُ, (according to others,) mentioned by AZ as one of the forms of plural repudiated by the Arabic grammarians except in some anomalous instances. (TA.)