טַחֲנָה, preced. wds.) mill. Koh. R. to XII, 7 נמשלו ד"ת כט׳ וכ׳ the study of the Law is allegorized as a mill, as the mill does not stop &c.—Pl. טוֹחֲנוֹת (fr. טוֹחֲנָה) millstones. Lam. R. introd. (R. Josh. 2) נמשלו ישראל כט׳ Israel is compared to millstones (never resting), v. supra. Ib. הט׳ אלו משניות וכ׳ ‘the millstones’ (Koh. XII, 3), that means the study of the great Mishnayoth of &c.