קרץ

קָרַץ(b. h.) 1) to make an incision; to cut. Yoma III, 4 קְרָצוֹ ומרקוכ׳ he made the ritually required cut, and some one else finished , v. מָרַק. Ib. 32b מאי קרצו … לישנאוכ׳ what is meant by ḳratso?… It has the meaning of slaying (by ref. to Jer. 46:20); Y. ib. III, 40c top, v. נָכוֹסָא. Tosef.Ukts.II, 8 כיון שקרצו as soon as he has made an incision into it (although he did not cut it apart, v. Ukts. II, 5).Esp. to cut dough on the bakers board. Kel. XV, 2 אם … קוֹרֵץ עליו if he prepares it to cut dough on it; Tosef. ib. B. Mets.V, 4; a. fr.Y.Pes.IV, 31b top מודיי שקודצין, read: שקוצרין. 2) to bite, pinch. Nidd.VI, 12 כדי לִקְרוֹץ בצפורן a hair large enough to seize with the nails. 3) (to form a groove, to press the lips close together; to gesticulate with closed lips. Mikv. VIII, 5 קָרְצָה שפתותיה if (in taking a ritual immersion) she pressed her lips together.Yoma 19b הקורא … ולא יִקְרוֹץ בשפתותיו reading the Shmʿa one must not blink with ones eyes, nor gesticulate with ones lips (make motions to his neighbor). Pi. קֵרֵץ same. Ib. הקורא … ומְקָרֵץוכ׳ of him who reads the Shmʿa and blinks with his eyes and gesticulates with his lips and points with his fingers, the Scriptures say, ‘not me didst thou call (Is. 43:22); Yalk. Is. 318) וקוֹרֵץ. Nif. נִקְרַץ to be nipped off. Peah VII, 4 אם נִקְרֶצֶת עםוכ׳ if it (the isolated bunch on the knee of a vine) can be nipped off as a cluster, it belongs to the owner (Ms. M. נקצרת, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note); Sifra Kdosh., Par. 1, ch. III (Var. נקצרת); Yalk. Lev. 605 נקצרת; Y.Peah VII, 20a bot. אני אומר את הנִקְרָצוֹת עם האשכולות (not עם) I mean those which have been nipped off in clusters; a. e.