דֶּקֶל, (cmp. דקר) l) palm-tree. Peah IV, 1. Tam. 29ᵇ; a. fr.—B. Bath. 36ᵇ ד׳ נערה (Ms. H. a. O. נעורה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 3) a young palm bearing more than once a year (oth. opin.: one dropping its fruits prematurely). Ab. Zar. I, 5 ד׳ טב a variety called dekel tab (Chald.: good palm). Sifra Thazr., Neg., Par. 5, ch. XIII ד׳ הרים אתה thou art a mountain-palm (too rash, v. Men. 84ᵇ top; Var. in R. S. to Neg. XI, 7 דוקר וכ׳ cutting through mountains, sophistical; Yalk. Lev. 552 עוקר).—Pl. דְּקָלִים, דְּקָלִין. Gen. R. s. 38.—Tosef. M. Kat. II, 10; Sabb. XIV, 3 מי דקלים (Var. דקרים, Tosef. ib. XII (XIII), 13 דקר׳, Var. ed. Zuck. דקלין) a potion used as apurgative (said to be the water of a well springing forth between two date-trees); Y. ib. XIV, 14ᶜ; Bab. ib. 110ᵃ; Y. Ber. VI, end, 10ᵈ.—2) = דֶּקֶר. Y. Sot. II, 18ᵃ