نَدَفَ

[He separated and loosened cotton by means of a bow and a kind of wooden mallet, by striking the string of the bow with the mallet: see حَلَجَ; and حَرَنَ] he beat cotton with the ↓ مِنْدَف, (S, Msb, * K,) also called ↓ مِنْدَفَة, i. e., his wooden implement with which he strikes the bowstring, that it [the cotton] might become fine. (K.)