حجفة doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• حَجَفَةٌ

  حَجَفَةٌ حجفه حجفة A shield made of skins, (S, K, TA,) or, as some say, of the skins of camels, cut out in a round form, (TA,) without wood and without sinews; (S, K, TA;) as also دَرَقَةٌ: (S:) or of skins sewed one ove…

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