אִסְקַרְיָא, (סקר to espy = b. h. תֹּרֶן fr. תּוּר) prop. espying place, hence mast or rather yard (where the captain sits for looking out; cmp. תּוּרְנָא). B. Bath. 73ᵃ, explain. toren; v. supra. Taan. 21ᵃ נפילנא מא׳ I would throw myself (into the water) from the sail yard. B. Mets. 69ᵇ. Keth. 69ᵇ א׳ דמכותא mast-yard; Taan. 21ᵃ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 300).—Neg. XII, 1; Naz. 55ᵃ, v. אִסְכַּדְיָא.