קְצָצָה

קְצָצָהf. (preced. wds.) 1) timber. Cant. R. to IV, 12 ק׳ של ארזין cedar planks; Pesik. Bshall. p. 84a> ק׳ של ארז; Yalk. Ex. 225 קְצָצִים (only).Pl. קְצָצוֹת Y.Keth.VIII, 32b bot. אילנות וק׳וכ׳ if heirs seize trees or timber, old or young, it is taken away from them. 2) cutting off, severing family connections; ḳtsatsah, a ceremony attending the sale of an heirloom to an outsider, and the marriage of a man beneath his social rank. Y.Kidd.I, 60c הזרו להיות קונים בק׳ then again the custom arose to take possession of an estate by ḳtsatsah (instead of taking off the shoe); מהו בק׳ … נקצץ פלוני מאחוזתו what is ḳ.? When a man sold his paternal estate, his relatives brought casks filled with parched ears and nuts, and broke them in the presence of children: the latter picked them up, and they said, this man has been cut off ; and when he bought it back, they did the same and called out, this man has returned to his heirloom ; Ruth R. to IV, 7; Y.Keth.II, 26d bot. קְצִיצָה; Ib. שאכלנו בקְצִיצַת פלוני adults are admitted to testify, ‘we (as children) ate (grain and nuts) at that mans ḳ.; Bab. ib. 28b בקצצה שלוכ׳ at the ḳ. when that mans daughter was married; וזו היא הק׳וכ׳ and this is the ḳ. to which a child can testify (when grown up); Tosef. ib. III, 3.