קְצָצָה f. (preced. wds.) 1) timber. Cant. R. to IV, 12 ק׳ של ארזין cedar planks; Pesik. B’shall. p. 84ᵃ ק׳ של ארז; Yalk. Ex. 225 קְצָצִים (only).—Pl. קְצָצוֹת. Y. Keth. VIII, 32ᵇ bot. אילנות וק׳ וכ׳ if heirs seize trees or timber, old or young, it is taken away from them. —2) cutting off, severing family connections; ḳ’tsatsah, a ceremony attending the sale of an heirloom to an outsider, and the marriage of a man beneath his social rank. Y. Kidd. I, 60ᶜ הזרו להיות קונים בק׳ then again the custom arose to take possession of an estate by ḳ’tsatsah (instead of taking off the shoe); מהו בק׳ … נקצץ פלוני מאחוזתו what is ḳ.? When a man sold his paternal estate, his relatives brought casks filled with parched ears and nuts, and broke them in the presence of children: the latter picked them up, and they said, this man has been cut off &c.; and when he bought it back, they did the same and called out, this man has returned to his heirloom &c.; Ruth R. to IV, 7; Y. Keth. II, 26ᵈ bot. קְצִיצָה; Ib. שאכלנו בקְצִיצַת פלוני adults are admitted to testify, ‘we (as children) ate (grain and nuts) at that man’s ḳ.’; Bab. Keth. 28ᵇ בקצצה של וכ׳ at the ḳ. when that man’s daughter was married; וזו היא הק׳ וכ׳ and this is the ḳ. to which a child can testify (when grown up); Tosef. ib. III, 3.