מִפְרֶקֶת, [that which branches off,] neck, nape. Ḥull. 113ᵃ השובר מִפְרַקְתָּהּ וכ׳ he who breaks the neck of a slaughtered animal before it is dead. Zeb. 65ᵇ חותך שדרה ומ׳ he cuts (with his nail) the spinal column and the nape; Ḥull. 21ᵃ; 28ᵃ. Ib. 10ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) בעצם דמ׳ איפגים the knife may have been notched on striking the neck-bone; a. fr.