סַפְסָל m. (v. סֵפֶל 2) frame, bench, stool. Kidd. 70ᵃ ס׳ דאמור רבנן וכ׳ call it safsal (Hebrew) as the scholars do, or &c. (v. אִיסְטְבָא 2). Kel. XXII, 3 ס׳ שניטל וכ׳ a bench (long board) which has lost one of its ends (supports). Tosef. Kel. B. Bath. I, 12 ס׳ שנתפרק a frame which has fallen apart. Mikv. V, 2; a. fr.—Pl. סַפְסַלִּים, סַפְסַלִּין. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top שמנים ס׳ היו שם של וכ׳ eighty benches (forms) of students were there. Tosef. l. c. 11 הס׳ שבפונדקאות the (movable) benches in inns; הס׳ של מלמדי וכ׳ the school teachers’ benches (open frames serving as foot-rests for those behind). Kel. XXII, 10 ס׳ שבמרחץ (used as singular) the (marble) board-frame (with wooden supports). B. Bath. IV, 6 לא מכר … הס׳ (Babli ed. 67ᵇ הסְפָלִין) has not sold (with the bath-house) the boards of the seats. Ib. 67ᵇ בית הס׳ Ms. H. a. R. (ed. הספלים) the room where the seats are kept. Pes. 51ᵃ סַפְסַלֵּי נכרים the frames on which gentiles spread their goods. Snh. 104ᵇ לחכה אש בסַפְסִילֵיהֶן (some ed. בסַפְסַלֵּיהָם). fire lapped their benches; a. fr.