Jastrow: כָּנַס

כָּנַס (b. h.; v. כּוֹס I) 1) to collect, gather; to cover, shelter, bring home. B. Kam. VI, 1 הכּוֹנס צאן לדיר he who takes the flock into the stall; a. fr.—כ׳ משקה to absorb liquids through pores, opp. to הוציא to let liquids escape through pores. Nidd. 49ᵃ יביא … אם כָּנְסָה וכ׳ get a tub full of water and put the pot in, if it draws water &c. Kel. X, 8 היו בכוֹנֵס משקה (sub. נקובין) if the vessels were so porous as to be called absorbers of liquids. Nidd. l. c. כיצד … לידע אם ניקב בכונס משקה how do we examine to find out whether a vessel is porous to the extent of absorbing liquids? (v. supra); a. fr.—Esp. to take a woman home, to consummate a marriage by conducting a woman to one’s house, to wed, v. אֵירוּסִין a. נִישּׂוּאִין. Keth. 3ᵇ וברביעי כּוֹנְסָהּ and on the fourth day of the week he weds her. Ib. ומסכנה ואילך נהגו … לִכְנוֹס וכ׳ and from the days of persecution … the people adopted the custom to wed on the third day; … ובשני לא יִכְנוֹס but on the second day one must not marry. Y. Yeb. IV, 6ᵇ כְּנָסָהּ ולא וכ׳ he took her to his home but did not touch her &c.; a. fr.—Part. pass. כְּנוּסָה. Y. Sot. II, 18ᵇ top שומרת יבם וכ׳ neither while waiting for the yabam nor after having been taken to his house. —2) (of a sore) [to gather,] to grow smaller, to contract, opp. פשה. Neg. IV, 7; Tosef. ib. II, 6; Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 2, ch. II; a. e. —3) (archit.) to recede, to form a settle or recess in a wall. Midd. III, 1 עלה אמה וכ׳ אמה (the altar) rose one cubit and then receded one cubit; Men. 97ᵇ.—Y. Erub. VII, 24ᵇ bot. (of an inclined plane) עולה אמה וכוֹנֵס שלש it rises vertically one cubit, while the incline measures three cubits, v. כִּיבּוּשׁ.—Part. pass. כָּנוּס, f. כְּנוּסָה. Tosef. Erub. I, 10 כותל שצידו אחד כ׳ מחבירו וכ׳ a wall which is more receding on one side than on the other, either the inner wall being even &c.; Erub. 9ᵇ; 15ᵃ; (Y. ib. 19ᵇ top כותל הנכנס). Y. Succ. I, 52ᵃ אפי׳ כנוסה כמה even if the reduction be ever so large.