- שלח II (שלוח)
- שֶׁלַחII (שְׁלוּחַ) m. (שָׁלַח) (stripped of its skin,) a pressed olive the stone of which slips out at a touch.Pl. שְׁלָחִין, שְׁלוּ׳. Ab. Zar. II, 7 (39b; Mish. a. Y. ed. שלו׳). Ib. 40b היכי דמי ש׳וכ׳ when are they called Shlḥain? When the stone slips out as you take the olive in your hand.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
