צִיר II, hinge, pivot. Men. 33ᵃ; Erub. 11ᵇ היכר צ׳, v. אַבְקָתָא. Kel. XI, 2; Num. R. s. 12, v. פּוֹתָה. Erub. X, 12 מחזירין צ׳ התחתון you may bring back to its socket the lower pivot (of a door of a chest &c.). Yoma 39ᵇ וצ׳ דלתות וכ׳ the turning hinges of the Temple door were heard &c.; a. fr.—Pl. צִירִים, צִירִין. Y. Naz. VIII, 57ᵃ bot איסטרטיוטות שומרי צ׳ וכ׳ (not ושומרי) Roman soldiers were stationed in Jerusalem as guards of the hinges (of the Temple gates); Tosef. Pes. VII, 13 צורים ed. Zuck. (corr. acc.). Bekh. 45ᵃ כשם שצ׳ לבית כך צ׳ לאשה as a house has hinges (doors moving in sockets), so a woman’s body has hinges (in her sexual organs; ref. to I Sam. IV, 19 צִרֶיהָ). Ib. צִירֵי בשר (the sockets and pivots in the male body are merely) hinges of flesh (muscles, not separate organs); a. e.