מַחְצָב, (חָצַב) quarry, mine. Shebi. III, 5. Ib. 6 פחות מיכן מ׳ if a stone fence is less than ten handbreadths high, it comes under the category of a quarry. Y. ib. 34ᶜ bot. מ׳ שבינו וכ׳ a quarry situated between two estates. Ex. R. s. 15 ברוך המ׳ וכ׳ blessed the quarry from which it was hewn. Lev. R. s. 26, end ומלאו המ׳ לפניו וכ׳ and they filled the quarry before him with gold Denars. Esth. R. to I, 6 המ׳ הזה וכ׳ this (marble) quarry had not been revealed to any man before &c.