Jastrow: גַּמָּל

גַּמָּל m. (preced.) camel-driver. Kidd. IV, 13 one must not rear his son to be חמר ג׳ וכ׳ an ass-driver, or a camel-driver &c.; Y. ib. IV, end, 66ᶜ; a. e.—Pl. גַּמָּלִין. Ib.—Y. M. Kat. III, 62ᵃ bot. גַּמָּלָיו his drivers.—חַמָּר (וְ)גַמָּל ass-driver and camel-driver in one person (the camel-driver walking by the head of his beast, the ass-driver behind), one walking forward and backward, i.e. one who, owing to the loss of the object with which he appointed the central point for the movements of the day (v. עֵירוּב), may walk only from his home to that spot and back. Erub. III, 4 (35ᵃ); Tosef. ib. V (IV), 2; Y. ib. III, 21ᵇ top.