Jastrow: חוּלְיָא I

חוּלְיָא I, חוּלְיָה, חוּלְיָי׳ f. (b. h. חֶלְיָה; חלי, cmp. חָלָל III; cmp. גִּלָּה) [loose part, something movable,] limb, link; vertebra of the spinal column. Bekh. VI, 5 בין ח׳ לח׳ (Talm. ed. 39ᵇ מח׳ לח׳) between two vertebrae.—Ḥull. 52ᵃ if a rib is displaced וח׳ עמה and a vertebra with it. Ib. 42ᵇ; a. fr.—Y. Succ. I, 51ᵈ ח׳ של עמוד a segment of a column. Men. 38ᵇ ח׳ a joint of the plaited show-threads.—Pl. חוּלְיוֹת, חֲלָיוֹת. Kel. XI, 8 a chain שח׳ שלה וכ׳ the links of which are of metal stringed on &c. Ib. ח׳ של אבנים וכ׳ links consisting of jewels, pearls &c. Gen. R. s. 79, v. דְּיָקִינְתִּין. Ohol. I, 8 שמונה עשרה ח׳ eighteen vertebrae.—Bets. 22ᵃ מנורה של חליות a candlestick which can be taken apart. Sabb. 46ᵃ, v. חִדְקָא. Kel. V, 8; 10 חתכו ח׳ if he cut the burned clay of an oven into tiles; a. fr.—Esp. a segment of earth cut out in digging a pit and piled up on its borders; (collect.) the entrenchment around a well (increasing its capacity). Ber. 3ᵇ; 59ᵃ (prov.) אין הבור מתמלא מחוּלְיָתוֹ a pit cannot be filled up with its own earth, i.e. a community cannot live on its own resources. Sabb. XI, 2 (99ᵃ) חוּלְיַת הבור (חוּלְיַית, Mish. חוּלְיוֹת, pl.) the entrenchment of a well. Erub. 78ᵃ; Sabb. 99ᵃ בור וחוּלְיָתָהּ (וחוּלְיָי׳) וכ׳ the depth of the well and its entrenchment are counted together to make up ten hand-breadths. Ib.ᵇ בור תשעה … ח׳ if the pit was nine hand-breadths deep, and he took out of the bottom one segment (which had been cut before this). Ib. ונתן לתוכה ח׳ and threw a segment in. B. Kam. 51ᵃ עקרו שניהם ח׳ וכ׳ both of them took the last segment out together, so as to complete the legal depth &c. Yoma 84ᵇ עוקר ח׳ break loose one segment of the entrenchment; a. fr.