جِرْبَةٌ
1.
A place of seed-produce; (S, K;) as also
جَرِيبٌ: (K:) and a tract of land such as is termed
قَرَاح [i. e. a field, or land, sown or for sowing, without any building or trees in it; or land cleared for sowing and planting; or a separate piece of land in which palm-trees &c. grow; &c.]: (K:) metaphorically applied by Imra-el-Keys to [a grove of] palm-trees, where he says
[Like a grove of palm-trees, or like the plantation of Yethrib]: (AHn, TA:) or land prepared for sowing or planting: (AHn, K:) or a piece of land differing in condition from the land adjoining it, [i. e. a patch of land,] producing good plants or herbage: (Lth, TA:) the plural [or rather coll. gen. n.] is جِرْبٌ, (Lth, AHn,) like as تِبْنٌ is of تِبْنَةٌ, and سِدْرٌ of سِدْرَةٌ: (AHn:) or جِرْبٌ signifies a قَرَاح; and its plural is جِرَبَةٌ. (IAar, TA.)كَجِرْبَةِ نَخْلٍ أَوْ كَجَنَّةِ يَثْرِبَ
2.
A skin, or a mat, which is placed upon the brink of a well, lest the water should be scattered into the well [apparently in falling from the bucket into the channel of the tank or cistern &c.]: or (a skin, TA,) that is placed in a rivulet or streamlet
جَدْوَل [which is applied in the present day to an artificial streamlet for irrigation, in the form of a trench or gutter,]) that the water may flow down over it [apparently from the well to the tank or cistern &c.]. (M, K.)