מוֹט, preced.) balancing pole, staff. Bets. III, 3 (25ᵃ) לא … במ׳ במוטה (Y. ed. במטה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 4) he must not bring it to town on a staff or on a barrow. Sot. 34ᵃ (ref. to Num. XIII, 23) ממשמע שנאמר במ׳ וכ׳ it being said ‘on a staff’, do I not know that it was carried by two persons?—Pl. מוֹטוֹת. Ib., v. טוּרְטִינִי. Tosef. Ohol. VII, 1, v. נִדְבָּךְ; a. e.