A string (خَيْط) whereby he who is shackled (مُقَيَّد) raises his shackles (قَيْد), (Yoo, S, K,) to which that string is fastened; (TA;) as also ↓رِفَاعَةٌ. (K.)
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Also, (S, K,) and ↓رِفَاعَةٌ, (Az, K,) A thing by means of which a woman having little flesh in the posteriors makes herself to appear large [in that part]; (S;) i. q.عُظَّامَةٌ: (K:) plural رَفَايءِعُ. (TA.)