Jastrow: דְּחִיָּה

דְּחִיָּה, דְּחִיָּיה f. (preced.) 1) thrusting, knocking down. Snh. 45ᵃ (ref. to דוחפו, Mish. ib. VI, 4) מניין שבד׳ whence do we derive the law that he must be knocked down?; Y. ib. VI, 23ᶜ top מניין שטעון ד׳.—Pl. דְּחִיּיוֹת, דְּחִיּוֹת. Ib. —2) postponement, suspension. Y. Sabb. XIX, beg. 16ᵈ עיקר דְּחִיָּיתָן וכ׳ what they chiefly supersede is the Sabbath and that which is required for their execution is labor (otherwise forbidden).—[דְּחִיּוֹת in later Hebr. literature: the reasons for shifting the first day of Tishri in the Jewish calendar.]