קַרְדּוֹם, cutting tool, spade, mattock, hatchet (with a pointed and a broad side). Ab. IV, 5 ולא ק׳ לחפור בהם make not the words of the Law a spade to dig with them (the means for selfish ends). Tosef. M. Kat. I, 4 תוחב בשפוד ומכה בק׳ וכ׳ he sticks (into the ground where moles are suspected to hide) a spit, or strikes with a mattock and stamps the ground under him; Y. ib. I, 80ᶜ; Bab. ib. 7ᵃ. Bets. IV, 3 ואין … בק׳ (when splitting wood for immediate use on the Holy Day) you must not use the hatchet, expl. ib. 31ᵇ נקבות שלו the broad side of it. Ib. ק׳ וקופיץ a tool combining axe and bill, v. קוּפִּיץ; a. fr.—Gitt. 30ᵇ מלא ק׳ a ground having room for the mattock to work in, a common-sized field, opp. to מלא מחט a diminutive patch of ground.—Pl. קַרְדּוּמּוֹת. Tosef. B. Mets. II, 1, v. מַחֲרזוֹת; a. e.