Jastrow: כְּבָסָא

כְּבָסָא, כּוּבְסָא m. (כבס) something pressed, ball, lump, esp. 1) cluster of dates. Sabb. 67ᵃ כמאן תלינן כבסא בדיקלא Ar. (ed. כּוּבְסֵי, Ms. O. כְּבָסֵי pl., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 70) by what authority dare we suspend a cluster of dates on a sterile date-tree (and not consider it a forbidden superstitious practice)? Macc. 8ᵃ ומחייה לכ׳ (ed. לכְּבָאסָא, Ms. M. a. Rashi לכובסא) and it (the struck twig) struck the cluster. —2) (trnsf.) testicles. Shebu. 41ᵃ נקטיה בכוּבְסֵיה … לגלימיה הוא that is “held him by his testicles that he may give up his cloak’; i.e. this is force worse than laying distress on his property; B. Mets. 101ᵇ