קוּפִּיץ, form) (קְפַץ; cmp. קָפִיץ, a. קֶפֶץ) [curved cutting tool,] hatchet or bill for chopping bones. Targ. Y. Deut. XXI, 4 (ed. Vien. קוּפִיץ).—Bets. IV, 3 אין מבקעין … אלא בק׳ you must not split wood (on the Holy Day for immediate use) with an axe …, but only with the butcher’s hatchet. Ib. III, 6 כנגד הק׳ by putting on the scale a hatchet (instead of the commercial weights); Y. ib. 62ᵃ bot. קופיס. Sot. IX, 5, v. עָרַף. Pes. 70ᵃ ק׳ קשורה וכ׳ (fem.) the hatchet tied to the slaughtering knife; a. fr.—Tosef. Bekh. I, 17 עורפו בקוּפָּץ וכ׳ (Var. בקֻפִּיץ) he breaks its neck with a hatchet from behind.