وَاسِطٌ
1.
See وَسَطٌ.
, and also as an epithet.2.
وَاسِطُ الكُورِ, (Lth, S, K,) or الرَّحْلِ, (ISh, Az, M,) and
وَاسِطَتُهُ, (Lth, M, K,) and
مَوْسِطَتُهُ, (Lh, M, [or perhaps
مُوسِطَتُهُ, corresponding to
مُوءْخِرَتُهُ,]) The fore-part of the camel's saddle: (S, K:) according to Lth, (Az, TA,) the part, of the camel's saddle, which is between the
تَادِمَة
and the
اخِرَة; (Az, M, L;) but this is a mistake; (Az, L;) for the واسط of the camel's saddle is one of the
شَرْخَانِ, (ISh, Az, L,) which are its two extremities, [or upright pieces of wood,] like the
قَرَبُوسُانِ
of the horse's saddle, (Az, L,) between which the rider sits; (ISh, Az, L;) it is the extremity which is next to the head of the camel; (Az, L;) the tall forepart next to the breast of the rider, (ISh, Az, L,) against which the breast of the rider sometimes strikes; (TA, in article نحز;) the اخِرةَ being the extremity which is next to the tail of the camel; (Az, L;) the hinder part of the saddle, which is its tall and broad piece of wood that is against (تُحَاذِى) the head of the rider: (ISh, Az, L:) the former of these is not called واسط as being a middle part between the اخرة and the قادمة, as Lth says; nor has the camel's saddle any [part called] قادمة. (Az, L.)
3.
الوَاسِطُ also signifies The piece of wood that is in the middle, between the two pieces called the
عِضَادَتَانِ, in the yoke that is upon the neck of a bull which draws a cart or the like. (L in article عضذ.)