קִרְקֵר I, to storm a wall, batter, destroy. Y. Taan. IV, 69ᵇ sq. בשביעי נכנסו … מְקַרְקְרִין בו וכ׳ on the seventh of Ab they entered it, on the eighth they worked to demolish it, on the ninth they set fire to it; Y. Meg. I, 70ᶜ top; Tosef. Taan. IV (III), 10 והיו מקרקרין שביעי וכ׳ they worked at its demolition on the seventh, the eighth &c. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joḥ. 1) שהיו מְקַרְקְרִים קירות וכ׳ they tore down the walls of their houses and made of them breastworks and placed them around their forts, v. שׁוֹעַ; Yalk. Is. 289.