كَرَبَةٌ
1.
singular of كِرَابٌ, which latter signifies The channels in which water flows (S) in a valley: (K:) or the upper parts (صُدُور) of valleys.
(AA.) Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, describing bees,
[The eaters, or feeders, among them, resort to the upper parts of the mountains, busily engaged, and pour down (into) ravines with crooked water-channels]. (S.) [جوارس, شعوف, and مصيف, are explained as above in the TA: and الهاب is said in the S and TA, article لهب, to be here plural of لِهْبٌ. In a copy of the S, this last is erroneously written إِلْهَابًا.]جَوَارِسُهَا تَأْوِى الشُّعُوفَ دَوَايءِبًاوَتَنْصَبُّ أَلْهَابًا مَصِيفًا كِرَابُهَا
2.
كَرَبَةٌ (in the TA, written كَرَبٌ,) The piece of wood (زِرّ) in which is inserted the head of a tent-pole. (K.)