Jastrow: תַּמְחוּי

תַּמְחוּי c. (denom. of מִחְיָה) 1) a plate for various dishes or portions, tray. Kel. XVI, 1, v. מַזְנוֹן. Ned. IV, 4 אוכל … אבל לא מן הת׳ he may eat at the same table with him, but not from the same plate; אבל … מן הת׳ החוזר but he may eat with him from a plate which goes back to the host (each time a guest is served). Maasr. I, 7 נותן … ולת׳ he may put the oil on the cake (חֲמִיטָה) or on the plate. Y. B. Mets. VIII, end, 11ᵈ השאילני תַּמְחוּיְיךָ וכ׳ (or תַּמְחוּיֶיךָ, pl.) lend me thy plate and dine with me; a. fr.—Esp. tamḥuy, charity plate, daily distributed food collected from contributors, soup-kitchen, contrad. to קוּפָּה, q. v. Peah VIII, 7 מי … לא יטול מן הת׳ he who has the means for two meals, must not accept support from the tamḥuy. B. Bath. 8ᵇ ת׳ נגבית בשלשה וכ׳ the tamḥuy is collected under the supervision of three persons, and distributed by three persons, for the mode of its collection and distribution is the same; ת׳ לעניי העולם וכ׳ the ṭ. is for all poor people wherever they may come from, the ḳuppah for the town poor only. Pes. X, 1 אפילו מן הת׳ even if he is supported from the ṭ.; Y. ib. 37ᵇ bot.; a. fr.—Pl. תַּמְחוּיִין. Y. Ter. VIII, 45ᵈ top. Ker. 12ᵇ ת׳ מחלקין (not מחולקין) trays form a separation, i.e. if one eats two half-olive sizes of forbidden food from two different plates, they are not counted together as one olive-size; Sabb. 71ᵃ; Y. ib. VII, 9ᵇ; a. fr. —2) (from its shape) the partition in a wagon for freight or baggage, Maim.; (a cavity in the yoke, R. S.).—Pl. תַּמְחוּיוֹת. Kel. XIV, 4.