קוֹץ II, (קָצַץ) piece.—Pl. קוּצִּים, קוּצִּין. Y. Meg. III, 74ᵇ bot. (ref. to Mish. ib. III, 7, ‘you must not interrupt the reading of the curses’, with play on תָּקֹץ, Prov. III, 11) אל תַּעֲשֶׂהָ ק׳ ק׳ do not make it (the rebuke) appear cut up in pieces; Deut. R. s. 4; Treat. Sof’rim XII, 1.