כל כלי עץ. שלחן הכפול – it is made by links/segment of earth cut out in digging a pit and piled up on its border or sections, and after they remove it, they fold the segments or sections one top of the other, and each segment is a vessel on its own.

תמחוי המזנון (a plate with many partitions – each of which, if separated, may be a receptacle) – a very large dish and within it are small dishes, and they place on each of the smaller dishes a course of cooked food. And because there is within it many different kinds, it is called תמחוי המזנון/a plate with many partitions. And in Aramaic translation it is called למינו לזנוהי.

אפיפורין (saddle cloth – protuberance/shape of the human buttock) – the seat of limbs.

המגס (tray, plate, dish) – the Aramaic translation of קערה מגיסתא/a dish from a tray.

קוד הבבלי (wooden Babylonian bowl – fragments of which may be used as a receptacle) – like a kind of wooden dish. And it is the language of the Sages, as it is explained, of a מקדה בזויה/fragment of a degraded vessel used for carrying fire. And all of these vessels, even though they were divided, remained in each section of them the form of a vessel. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

משישופם בעור הדג (from when he rubs them with fish skin) – to remove the chips that are in them. For prior to this, they are not appropriate for the work, that they wound the skin. But if they are not lacking anything other than the rubbing of glistening and scouring/washing, we hold [see Tractate Hullin 25a]: “unfinished wood vessels that is to be adorned with designs and polished are ritually impure.”

גמר שלא לשוף – he determined in his heart to use them even though he will not polish/rub them any further.

שלשה בתים – when they make a partition by means of net-work/like lattices to the bed with ropes, between each rope it is called a בית/row. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.

הסלים של עץ – from when is the completion of their manufacture?

משיחסום (to form the rim of basketwork or of a leather bag) – when a person makes a large vessel or a basket and completes the rim/peels them, this is החסימה/forming of the rim of a basket.

ויקנב (trimmed them – pinched off the projecting pricks) – after he completes the rim, when there remained the chips at the head of the protruding skin-like, scaly envelope of reed, he cuts and lops them off. And this is קניבה/trimming

תמרה – baskets made from dried branches/twigs of palm-trees.

שכן מקיימין – without trimming.

כלכלה (basket – containing chosen fruits-designated for use) – a basket made of bulrushes.

בית הלגינים (case of wickerwork for flasks) – a vessel in which they place flasks for preservation.

בית הכוסות – a vessel that they hide cups In it

הקנונין – a reed basket that they select in it pulse. And it is made from the twigs of palm trees.

קלתות (vase-shaped basket/woman’s work basket) – small vessels.

סוגים – large vessels [with partitions].

שני דורים לרוחב שלהן (two wreaths on their width) – after they wove the rims of the vessel, they weave around it circles according to what they want to be the width of the walls in its height, and those round/circular bands/walls are called דורים/wreaths.

וכן של מאזנים – the base on which they place upon it the balance.

דור אחד – from when he lifts up the rim by one circular band.

שתי צפירות (two circuits/circles) – two goings-around.

והערק (a long and flat vessel made of rush/bamboo) – that its rim is not as tall as the rim of the large vessel.

משיעשה צפירה אחת טמא – and the long and flat vessel made of bamboo and its length is greater than its width, the writing of shoe-makers/saddlers is called ערק/long and flat vessel made of bamboo. It is the Aramaic translation of (Genesis 14:23): “[I will not take] so much as a thread or a sandal strap [of what is yours]” until the sandal strap. But because it is a bulrush and shoe, they have the law of a wooden vessel, therefore, we teach them together with wooden vessels.

תורמל ([leather] bag) – a large leather pouch/bag that the shepherd places food and all things. And it is similar to it, but not the shepherd with his sack/bag.

קיחותיו (shepherd’s bag) – its rims, like kinds of small ears/handles surrounding the leather bag, and he puts into those handles ropes that they close it with.

סקורטיא (leather coat, apron, table cover) – leather that the tanners wear at the time of their work.

ציציתה (show-fringe) – like a kind of ritual fringes/Tzitzit of a Tallit/prayer shawl. So, we make the threads on its corners to tie attach them. But Maimonides explained, that סקורטיא, is leather that we eat upon, and its show-fringes is in the middle of the leather that we place upon it a foil/plate of metal for adornment, the language of the golden front plate (ציץ הזהב), which is a foil/plate of gold.

טבעותיה – a copper or iron ring that they place on the edge of the leather coat.

קטבליא (leather curtain, spread, cover – hide spread over the bed frame) – leather that they spread over the bed. And they call it NATAH in Arabic. And flat leather vessels are susceptible to receive ritual defilement from the Rabbis alone, like flat wooden utensils, and their law is similar in that they are not susceptible to receive ritual defilement from Torah, but rather from the Rabbis in all of the rest of the defilements except for the uncleanness caused by an unclean person lying o an object and the uncleanness caused by an unclean person’s sitting (i.e., the unclean seat) which ae made uncleanness by lying and uncleanness by sitting from the Torah when they are designated for this.

הכר והכסת – a mattress is smaller than a cushion, and is made to place under their heads. But the cushion [is made to be placed] underneath all of his body.

פחות מחמשה טפחים – they leave over/reserve because of the opening to bring in from there the hackled wool/lint/soft spongy substance to fill the mattress and the cushion.

פטיליא (wicker work – a sort of bale for packing dates, figs, etc.) – a basket made from species of trough, and they store in it dried figs.

וחסינה (a wicker work used for purposes of storage) – like a kind of basket made from thorns, and they place plaster/clay upon it.

סוגניות (loosely woven mats made of leaves [for covering up fruit]) – it is the language of סוגה בשושנים/”hedged about with lilies (Song of Songs 7:3). They make a kind of small basket of osier from the leaves and they cover fruits with it, but it is not other than a temporary construction.

נצרים (sprouts, shoots) – from the band made of palm-bark (i.e., wicker).

חותל (a bale which you can add to or take from – without cutting it open/wrapper of reed-matting) – a vessel that we make from the dried branches of the palm, and we place in it moist palm and they ripen in it.

נותן לתוכו ונוטל מתוכו – but if he is not able to remove the date-palms unless he tears it or loosens his dried palm branches, it is pure, for since he tears it or loosens it/unties it, he casts it into the dunghill/trash for it is of temporary use.

קסייא (a sort of glove for laborers) – a leather glove.

של זורי גרנות והולכי דרכים ושל עושי פשתן טמאה – for since it is made in order to hold the thing in his hand well so that it not become detached from him, or in order that a thorn not become inserted/stuck in his hand, it is called made for reception, for since the thing that he is holding on to lies on the glove and receives it.

של גרוסות (of grist-makers) – that make pounded beans in the millstone.

מפני הזיעה – to absorb the perspiration in order to cool off his skin that he not perspire. Alternatively, the sweat of his hands will soil the thing that he is holding on to.

טהור – for it is considered temporary usage.

מלקוט (the bag – for receiving the excrements of working cattle) – leather that they place in the eyes of the cow in order that it should turn around and thresh.

החסום (muzzle) – like a kind of small net/trap of ropes that muzzle the in it the mouth of the cow in order that it cannot eat.

מדף של דבורים (vessel used for smoking the bees out) – a vessel that they place in it fire and the dung of cattle and they fumigate in order that the swarms of bees from the beehive will flee and he will take the honey. [This is] from the language of (Psalms 1:4): “[they are like the chaff] that wind blows away/אשר-תדפנו רוח.”

והמנפה (and the fan) – a vessel/utensil that they wave on the hot days to bring the wind.

קופסא (the lid of a box) – a kind of small box/chest that the woman places in it her ornaments and places upon it a cover from above.

קמטרא – a chest that they protect clothing in it. We translate in Aramaic [the Biblical phrase] (2 Kings 10:22): “[He said to the man in charge] of the wardrobe, [‘Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal]” as on the chest protecting the clothing.

והמכבש (the carpenter’s vise – for straightening wood) – [every wood carpenter/artisan] has, according his trade a place that he stores and gathers the wood that is crooked and curved until he straightens it out.

והקמרון (arched lid) – the cover that is upon the chest that is made like a kind of arched compartment.

אנליגין (reading desk/pulpit) – a leather case that they make for a Scroll and they place it inside of it.

בית הנגר (door-bolt socket) – a leather case that the carpenter puts inside of it, which is the peg that they place on the back of the door.

ובית המנעול (lock-socket)– the leather case that they place in it the lock that locks the door.

ובית המזוזה – the metal beam that they place the Mezuzah in.

והאמום של גודלי מצנפות (the block of the cap-makers) – a frame like a kind of head of a person that they prepare for him the priest’s turban.

והמרכוף (name of a musical instrument for he accompaniment of songs) – it is like a kind of wooden horse that the jesters/scoffers play with. But there are those who interpret/explain this, a wooden utensil of cedar that is made for music.

ורביעית של אליית (wailer’s musical instrument) – and “with sistrums and cymbals,”(see II Samuel 6:5) that we translate in the Aramaic: “a sistra and cymbals.”

של אליית – of the female wailers. Like (Joel 1:8): “Lament – like a maiden girt with sackcloth [for the husband of her youth!].”

וסמוכות המטה (supports/pillars of the bed) – beams that support the bed that it would not fall.

טפוס של תפילין (block on which the case of the Tefillin is shaped) – like the frame of the Tefillin.

אמום של עושי סאגוס (model/frame of dressmakers) – frame of those who make chains. That they make them on top of a model/frame, that is [on top of] a block. But Maimonides has the reading, עושי סותות/those who make dresses. It is the language of (Genesis 49:11): “His robe in blood of grapes.” And it is a wooden frame that one sews clothing upon it.

משמשי משמשיו של אדם (all accessory items of essential equipment) – as for example, the coverings of utensils/vessels and the cases of vessels, which are made to serve the utensils that human beings use.

בשעת מלאכה ושלא בשעת מלאכה – at the time when the covering services the vessel to protect what is within it, which is at the time of its service. But when there is nothing inside the vessel, that it doesn’t require a covering, it is called, not at the time of its service. But there are vessels that they always place the covering upon them whether it is full or whether it is empty, even though the covering is not attached to it, since it us generally always upon it. And this general principle of Rabbi Yossi refers to flat wooden vessels that service the vessels, but receptacles defile in every matter. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yossi.

הפגיון (dagger) – a knife that has wo mouths.

תיק מכוחל (a chest containing a staff used for painting the eye) – the case of a utensil that they paint the eye with it.

ובית הכחול (case for the eye paint) – the vessel that protects the eye-paint that is in it.

מכתב (stylus, writing tool) – a bronze and iron writing pen/reed.

תרונתיק (trident, fork used in writing – probably for leveling the paper) – two cases. And it is one vessel and inside are many divided cases/sheaths, for reeds, knives and scissors. And the doctors of the associations/communities use this vessel a great deal. And in the foreign language, PINAROL.

פגושות (catapult) – wide arrows and they wound those who receive them and we translate it in Aramaic ומחת פגושוהי/and he wounds with a battering projectile.

מצדו טהור – that all that one he brings into it from the side is not considered a case but rather a mere covering.

סמפוניא – a [molten] metal musical instrument.

האלה (wrapping of a lance] – a copper staff and at its top is a circle like a ball, and pegs that are similar to almonds come out from it. In Arabi they call is DVUS.

העשוי לחיפוי – for covering. It is the Aramaic translation of cover/roofing.

טהור – as it is taught in a Baraita, it is possible that I increase the covering of vessels for impurity, as the inference teaches us (Leviticus 11:32): “[And anything on which one of them falls when dead shall be impure: be it any article of wood, or a cloth or a skin, or a sack – ] any such article that can be put to use [shall be dipped in water, and it shall remain impure until evening; then it shall be pure].”