Keilim 13:2 - 13:3

קוליגריפון (name of a batter’s tool resembling the stylus with one pointed end to pick up the bread called, “the tooth” and one flat and broad end to scrape the ashes out) – a utensil that at its one head is like teeth that we insert in bread or in meat when we remove it from the oven, And with the other head, we scrape out the coals and ashes from the oven.

ניטלה כפה (that has lost is palm – the flat and broad end – is susceptible to uncleanness on account of its tooth) – the wide side that is made like a spoon that that we scrape the ashes out with it.

טמאה – because the second head that has in it teeth that are appropriate for their use.

מכחול (a painting staff the spoon-shaped side of which is broken off) – its one head is pointed/sharp like a kind of thin and pointed side of a double tool to paint the eye with, and the other head is wide to clean the ear with it.

מכתב (stylus/writing tool) – one head is pointed/sharp to write on a notebook of wax and the other head is thick and smooth to erase/rub out the writing that is engraved in the way and to smoothen it, in order that it would appropriate to return and to write once again on it.

זומלסטרא (soup-ladle – with a spoon on one side and a fork on the other) – one head is a spoon, made to receive the filth/smell from the pot and to remove it and the other head is a kind of fork to bring out the meat.

וכן השן של מעדר (the tooth of the mattock/share of the plough) – at its one head they turn over the soil and at the other head the attach the vessel of the plough one with the other.

שיעור כולן – if the one head was removed that it is necessary that there would remain of the second head in order to be the measurement of the handle that it would be appropriate to do the work.

חרחור (coulter, inserted into the horizontal pole/מרדע in front of the ploughshare/דרבן ) – a vessel made like a hoe that we dig up the ground, and its iron is more pointed/sharp to sever the roots so that it will not detain the plough.

שינטל רובו – most of the iron or most of the steel-coating of the cutting tools/steel-edge.

מקופו (the eye of the coulter for the insertion of the horizontal pole) – a hole in which they insert the handle/helve like [Talmud Berakhot 55b]: “the hole of the needle.”

טהור – for further it is not appropriate for work since one is not able to bring in a handle.

קרדום (hatchet) – that is pointed/sharp and cuts from its two sides. The one side is wide and carpenters use it and it is called its cutting edge. The Aramaic translation of the strigil is called its cutting edge. But the second side is short and it is called that part of the spade (or shovel) that is used for chopping, because it is on that side that homeowners cut/split wood. And in the Gemara in Tractate Betza [folio 31b] it calls the wide side its broadside of a double tool. But the short side is called the thin and pointed side of the double tool [of the hatchet used for splitting].