ثِقَافٌ
2.
Also An instrument with which spears are straightened, (S, K, TA,) and bows also, (TA,) and [other] crooked things; (JK, Mgh, TA;) made of iron: (JK, TA:) or a strong piece of wood, a cubit in length, having at its extremity a hole large enough to admit the bow, [or the spear], which is inserted into it, and pinched and pressed in the part that requires this to be done until it becomes in the state that is desired; but this is not done to bows nor to spears until they have been greased, and prepared with fire, or exposed thereto so as to have become altered in colour: (AHn, TA:) the plural [of pauc.] is أَثْقِفَةٌ and [of mult.] ثُقُفٌ. (JK, TA.)
3.
[Also The handle of a shield of the kind called حَجَفَة: see إِخَاذَةٌ.]