קרדום

קַרְדּוֹם, קוּרְ׳m. (b. h. קַרְדֹּם; קרדם, cmp. גַּרְדֵּם) cutting tool, spade, mattock, hatchet (with a pointed and a broad side). Ab. IV, 5 ולא ק׳ לחפיר בהם make not the words of the Law a spade to dig with them (the means for selfish ends). Tosef.M. Kat. I, 4 תוחב בשפיד ומכה בק׳וכ׳ he sticks (into the ground where moles are suspected to hide) a spit, or strikes with a mattock and stamps the ground under him; Y. ib. I, 80c; Bab. ib. 7a. Bets.IV, 3 ואין … בק׳ (when splitting wood for immediate use on the Holy Day) you must not use the hatchet, expl. ib. 31b נקבות שלו the broad side of it. Ib. ק׳ וקיפיץ a tool combining axe and bill, v. קוּפִּיץ; a. fr.Gitt.30b מלא ק׳ a ground having room for the mattock to work in, a common-sized field, opp. to מלא מחט a diminutive patch of ground.Pl. קַרְדּוּמּוֹת. Tosef.B. Mets.II, 1, v. מַחֲרזוֹת; a. e.