مِخْلَاةٌ

A thing [or bag] into which خَلًى is put: (S, K:) [and hence a nose-bag for a horse or the like; so in the present day;] a small sack that is hung to the head of a horse [or the like], in which he eats barley [&c.]: (Har p. 76:) so called because they used to cut [and put] خَلًى therein for their beasts: (JK:) plural مَخَالٍ. (TA.)

مَخَالِى القَتَبِ: see حِدْجٌ.