نِكْثٌ
1.
What is undone, to be spun again, (A, Msb,) of the garments called
أَكْسِيَة, and of the stuff of the tents called
أَخْبِيَة: (A:) plural أَنْكَاثٌ: (Msb:) or threads of an old and worn-out stuff, of wool or hair, untwisted, and mixed with new wool [or hair], and beaten with
مَطاَرِق, and spun a second time: or old and worn-out thread of wool or common hair or the soft hair called
وَبَر; so called because it is untwisted, and twisted again: (TA:) it is when the old and worn-out materials of the garments called اكسية (and of the tents called اخبية, S) are undone, to be spun again. (S, K.) [SM seems to have understood, from the explained in the S and K, that نِكْثٌ is a verbal noun; for he adds,] the subst. is
نَكِيثَةٌ: (TA:) [i. e., this last word has the signification assigned above to نِكْثٌ, from the A and Msb].
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