Jastrow: נִדְבָּךְ

נִדְבָּךְ m. (דבך = דוך; v. Del. Prol.; v. Del. Prol., p. 150) 1) rammed wall (pisé), a mould filled with earth or rubble; a block of a certain size (four handbreadths cubic measure), or a course of bricks &c., used as ‘binder’ (coagmentum); in gen. a course of stones, layer. Y. Shebi. III, 34ᶜ bot. זה שהוא מקבל נ׳ צריך וכ׳ he who contracts to build nidbakh, must build with blocks of four handbreadths as far as the space contracted for (v. infra). Sabb. 115ᵃ אמר לבנאי שקעהו תחת הנ׳ he said to the builder, sink it (the translation of the Book of Job) under the rubble; Y. ib. XVI, 15ᶜ top. Ber. II, 4 mechanics at work may read the Sh’ma בראש הנ׳ while standing on top of a course of the wall. Sabb. 125ᵇ נ׳ של אבנים a mouldful of stones (v. מִרְבָּךְ); a. fr. —2) a frame carried to the building ground with tools and vessels above and under it. Tosef. Ohol. VII, 1 ארבעה שהיו נושאין את הנ׳ ואין וכ׳ if four persons carry a frame the poles of which have not the size of a plough-handle; Ohol. VI, 1 (ed. Dehr. נדוד; Ar. נרווד, read: נִדְוָךְ, נִדְוָוךְ; Maim. a bier). Zab. V, 2 אצבעו של זב תחת הנ׳ if the gonorrhœist has his finger under the frame (while it is carried).—Pl. נִדְבָּכִין, נִדְבָּכוֹת. Ohol. XIV, 1 שלשה נ׳ וכ׳ a distance of three courses of stones which is twelve handbreadths; Tosef. ib. XIV, 8; Y. Shebi. III, 34ᵈ top. Ib. שלשה נ׳ עשרה וכ׳ three courses of trimmed stones making ten handbreadths, v. סִיתּוּת.