מֵצַר, מִצְרָא, מִי׳ II m. (מְצַר I, v. מִצְרִי I) rope of rushes &c.; 1) a contemptuous name for slave (cmp. אַרְוִיסָא). B. Bath. 127ᵇ דקארי ליה עבדא מ׳ מאה when he had been in the habit of calling him (whom he now claims to be his son) promiscuously ‘slave’, ‘metsar (rope)’, ‘one hundred’); מאי מ׳ מאה מ׳ עבדא מאה [דשוה] מאה זוזי (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 70) what is metsar meah? M. means slave; meah, that he is worth one hundred Zuz; [differ. interpret. in comment.—Alf. דאמרי אינשי מ׳ עבדא מאה זוזי for people say, ‘the rope of a slave (is worth) one hundred Zuz’]. —2) a cable stretched across a river and holding a board suspended, rope-bridge. M. Kat. 6ᵇ bot. Kidd. 81ᵃ. Bets. 7ᵇ. B. Bath. 167ᵃ אנחי ידאי אמ׳ I would put my hand on a rope-bridge (and write to imitate the writing of a trembling hand).