خصله 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.

• خصّلهُ Form 2

  2 خصّلهُ خصله خصلة , inf. n. تَخْصِيلٌ, He cut it, or divided it, in pieces. (M, K.) -b2- خصّل الشَجَرَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He lopped the branches of the trees: (K, TA:) or تَخْصِيلٌ signifies the cutting off s…

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