Piece of wood; cut piece of wood.
Plank. Wooden beam. Log of wood.
(“When the kings of Greece stationed guards on the roads to prevent people from going up to Jerusalem, as Jeroboam son of Nebat had done, every person who was God-fearing and upright in that generation would take two pieces of wood and fashion them into a kind of ladder, place it on his shoulder, and go up. When he reached that guard post, they would say to him: ‘Where are you going?’ He would reply: ‘To take two fledglings from that dovecote in front of me, with this ladder that is on my shoulder.’ Once he passed that guard, he would dismantle it and continue up to Jerusalem.” — Tosefta, Ta’anit, chapter 3 (Lieberman edition))
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
גְּזִיר עֵץ, גֶּזֶר עֵץ
Definition (Hebrew)
קֶרֶשׁ. קוֹרַת עֵץ. בּוּל עֵץ.
("שֶׁבְּשָׁעָה שֶׁהוֹשִׁיבוּ מַלְכֵי יָוָן פרסדדיאות עַל הַדְּרָכִים שֶׁלֹּא לַעֲלוֹת לִירוּשָׁלִַם,כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁהוֹשִׁיב יָרָבְעָם בֶּן נְבָט, כָּל מִי שֶׁהוּא יְרֵא חֵטְא וְכָשֵׁר בְּאוֹתוֹ הַדּוֹר הָיָה נוֹטֵל שְׁנֵי גְּזִירֵי עֵצִים וְעוֹשֶׂה אוֹתָן כְּמִין סֻלָּם וּמְנִיחָן עַל כְּתֵפוֹ וְעוֹלֶה.כְּשֶׁהִגִּיעַ לְאוֹתוֹ מִשְׁמָר אָמְרוּ לוֹ לְאָן אַתָּה הוֹלֵךְ?- לִטֹּל שְׁנֵי גּוֹזְלוֹת מִשּׁוֹבַךְ הַלָּז, שֶׁבְּפָנַי בְּסֻלַּם זֶה שֶׁעַל כְּתֵפִי. כֵּיוָן שֶׁעָבַר מֵאוֹתוֹ מְשַׁמֵּר מִפִּרְקָן וּמַעֲלָן לִירוּשָׁלִַם"-תּוֹסֶפְתָּא מַסֶּכֶת תַּעֲנִית (לִיבֶּרְמָן) פֶּרֶק ג)