سِكْرٌ

a subst. from السَّكْرُ (Mgh, K) as meaning “ the stopping up, or damming, ” of the river, or rivulet; (K;) i. e. A dam; a thing with which a river, or rivulet, is stopped up; (S, * Msb, K, TA;) and ↓ سَكْرٌ, originally a verbal noun, occurs in the same sense: (Mgh:) the plural of the former is سُكُورٌ. (K.)