نَاشِبٌ

Sticking fast in a thing. (Msb.)

Possessing arrows. (S, K.) A word of the same kind as لَابِنٌ and تَامِرٌ: (Msb:) after the manner of a relative noun; having no corresponding verb from which to be formed. (TA.) قَوْمٌ نَاشِبَةٌ [A people, or party, possessing arrows]. (S.)

Also, قَوْمٌ نَاشِبَةٌ, (TA,) and ↓ نَشَّابَةٌ, (K,) A people shooting, or who shoot, arrows. (K, TA.)

نَاشِبَةُ المَحَالِ The pulley that sticks fast, or will not run. A poet says,

وَتِلْكَ بَنُو عَدِىٍّ قَدْ تَأَلَّوْا

فَيَا عَجَبًا لِنَاشِبَةِ المَحَالِ

[And those, the sons of 'Adee, fell short of what they should do, or delayed: and I wonder at the pulley that sticks fast, and will not run!] He compares them, in their holding back from aiding them, [see article الو,] to the pulley that will not run. So explained by IAar, and the L. In the K explained imperfectly. (TA.)