נַפָּצָא, (preced.) flax-beater, carder. Yeb. 118ᵇ; Keth. 75ᵃ דנ׳ גברא תיקרייה וכ׳ though the husband be a carder, his wife will call him out to the threshold and sit down (proud of her husband); [Ar. נפסא: a guardsman in the vegetable garden, denom. of נָפוֹס.]