Jastrow: יָתֵד

יָתֵד f. (b. h.; cmp. עתד) [something fastened, driven in,] peg, nail; handle of a tool &c. Y. Taan. IV, 67ᵈ אשרי אדם … י׳ להיתלות בה (cmp. Is. XXII, 23, sq.) happy the man who has a peg to hang on, i.e. who has a renowned ancestry; ומה היתה יְתֵידָתוֹ וכ׳ and what was R. E.’s. peg?; Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top. Gitt. 17ᵃ י׳ היא שלא תמוט (my last opinion) is an immovable peg. Meg. 6ᵃ והיא היתה י׳ תקועה וכ׳ and she (Cæsarea) was a peg driven into Israel, i.e. an obnoxious foreign element.—י׳ של מחרישה the pin of the plough. Sabb. XVII, 4; a. e, v. מַחֲרֵישָׁה.—י׳ האהל tent-pin, v. infra.—י׳ הדרכים a way-mark of hardened clay pegs, v. גֵּץ; v. infra.—Pl. יְתֵדוֹת, יְתֵידוֹת. Gen. R. s. 43 שלשה י׳ גדולות three great pegs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob). Gen. R. s. 62 נתגרו בהן י׳ הארץ the pegs of the land (the remnants of the seven nations, cmp. Num. XXXIII, 55) arose against them. Kel. XIV, 3 י׳ אהלים י׳ המשוחות Mish. ed. (Bab. ed. ידות) the (metal) pegs of tents and those of the land measurers. Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. I, 7 החרב שפרשה עם י׳ המחרישה the knife (coulter) which has been taken out with the handle of the plough. Mikv. IX, 2 י׳ הדרכים, expl. גץ יוני. Tosef. ib. VI (VII), 14. B. Kam. 81ᵃ מסתלקין מפני י׳ הד׳ … you may (in walking) turn out from the highway towards the private sidewalk in order to avoid the road-pegs; Y. Ber. II, end, 5ᵈ top.