חִיזְרָא, חִזְ׳ I c. (חזר, cmp. חֲזִיר) 1) prickly, knotty thorn. B. Mets. 103ᵇ קני דח׳ וכ׳ (Ar. Var. חרזא, חירזא, v. Ar. ed. Koh. s. v. ארכבתא) the poles for the shrub (to be put up as a hedge on top of the earth mound) must be supplied by the landlord, but the shrub itself by the tenant. Ned. 41ᵇ top כח׳ לדיקלא as its prickles protect the palm-tree (v. Num. R. s. 3, beg.). Ber. 8ᵃ כח׳ בגבבא דעמרא וכ׳ (Ms. M. לח׳ דשלפא מגבבא וכ׳) as a thorn in a ball of wool which (if one tries to tear loose) lacerates backward (in the opposite direction of its knots), v. נְשַׁר I.—Pl. חִיזְרֵי. Sabb. 63ᵇ; Bets. 29ᵇ, a. e. (proverbial expression) (שקילי … ושדי) שקילא טיבותיך ושדיא אח׳ thy good-natured advice is taken and thrown over the hedge, i.e. thy advice comes too late. —2) a flexible and strong reed, bamboo-cane. Ber. 12ᵇ כרע כח׳ he bent (in prayer) like a cane (when it is swung).