גְּוִיל m. (גוּל) 1) a rolling stone, rough untrimmed stone, cobble. B. Bath. I, 1; expl. ib. 3ᵃ ג׳ אבני דלא וכ׳ untrimmed stones. B. Mets. 117ᵇ —2) a roll of parchment. Y. M. Kat. III, 83ᵇ bot. must rend his garments הג׳ בפני עצמו וכ׳ once for the burnt parchment and a second times for the writing; Bab. M. Kat. 26ᵃ אחת על הג׳ Ms. M.—Ib. (ref. to Jer. XXXVI, 27) המגילה זה הג׳ Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.) m’gillah refers to the writing paper, hadd’barim to the writing.—Pl. גְּוִילִין. Ab. Zar. 18ᵃ I see ג׳ נשרפין וכ׳ En Yakob (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 50, ed. incorr. גליון) the parchment burned but the letters soar upward.—Esp. g’vil, a certain kind of parchment, v. דּוּכְסוּסְטוֹס. Tosef. B. Bath. IV, 7 (if one sold) ספר של צבאים … של ג׳ a book for deer-skin and it is found to be g’vil. Mass. Sof’rim I, 4. Sabb. 79ᵇ; a. e.