Keilim 13:6 - 13:7

הפין (bit of a key) – the teeth of a key with which they open the door. And this form of this key is known in the Egyptian kingdom and throughout the land of Israel.

אפילו אחת טמאה – and even though that the teeth on their own without a lock are ritually pure, they (i.e., the Sages) established it that with a lock they are ritually impure , nevertheless the teeth are considered as essential and the lock serves [the teeth].

אלמוג (coral- a species of cedar tree) – KORALI in the foreign language, and it grows in the depth of the sea. And its beginning is soft prior to the air making it float/become thick and they open with it something sealed. And in Scripture, it is עצי אלמוגים (I Kings 10:11): “[Moreover, Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a huge quanity] of almog wood/sandalwood [and precious stones].”

השן שבטס (the key-ward fastened to a thin plate) – it is not similar to the bit of a key of that which opens for the tooth is used on its own, what is not the case with the bit of the key. Therefore, it is ritually impure on its own.

הכדומין (a sort of lever with which a pitcher is fished out of the wall/grappling iron) – a big long piece of wood and hooks come out from it here and there and they suspend on those hooks flasks of water in the air in order to cool them off. But Maimonides explained, that is a kind of seed-pot with hooks all around them and on it they raise the utensils that fell into the pit.

האשקלונין – that are made in Ashkelon.

המעבר והמזרה ומגוב (pitchfork – for the first stage of winnowing – passing the grain from one side to the other; winnowing fan; rake – an agricultural implement with many teeth, forming a sort of sieve to separate the grain from the chaff) – utensils that are made to clean the grain from the straw and to transfer the straw from place ot place. The pitchfork/המעבר has teeth and it is similar to the hand of humans, and with it, they transfer the straw from place to place. And the winnowing fan they winnow the wheat in the granary/threshing floor , therefore it is called a מזרה/winnowing fan, and its teeth are greater in umber than the teeth of the pitchfork. And the מגוב/rake has even more teeth than that of the winnowing fan, and with it, they separate/sift the grain after they winnowed it with the winnowing fan.

דבר חדש חידשו סופרים – they were appropriate to be ritually pure, for they are straight/flat wooden vessels, but because of one metal tooth, they were not put down as defiled.

ואין לי מה להשיב – for what reason did they say this [to the critics].