מוּשׁ (b. h.; v. מָשַׁשׁ) to feel, touch.
Nif. - נָמוֹשׁ , part. pl. נְמוֹשׁוֹת [gropers, searchers,] the last troop of gleaners. Peah VIII, 1 משילכו הנ׳ from the time the last gleaners go. Y. ib. 20ᵈ למה נקרא שמן נ׳ … בסוף וכ׳ why are they called n’moshoth (searchers)? Because they come out last. Ib. אית תני׳ נ׳ וכ׳ (not נמושית) some read n’moshoth, others mashoshoth &c.; he who reads mash. calls them so, because they feel their way in walking (old people); B. Mets. 21ᵇ; Taan. 6ᵇ מאי נ׳ סבי וכ׳ what is meant by n’moshoth? Old men walking on a staff; (oth. opin.) לקוטי וכ׳, v. לָקוֹטָא. Y. Peah l. c. היה יוצא בין הנ׳ (not מן) used to go out among the last gleaners.