مِرْأَبٌ

An instrument with which cracks, or fissures, in a vessel, are repaired, or mended; synonym مِشْعَبٌ. (M, TA.)

[And hence,] the same word, and ↓ رَأّبٌ, (T, A, K,) A man who repairs, or mends, cracks, or fissures, (T, K,) of bowls [&c.]: (T:) or who repairs, or mends, things well. (A.) And [hence,] (assumed tropical:) A man who effects reconciliation, or makes peace, between people. (T.) Pl. [of the former] مَرَايءِيبُ [as though the singular were مِرْابٌ also]. (T, A, TA.)