There is no stretch at all. Read jastrow's citations carefully:
This "frame of mortised shingles" was used as covering both to the oven
(kelim 5, 9) and to the vat (mo'ed qata 2, 2).
In the case of the oven, the limmudim were used to keep the heat inside;
In the case of the vat, they used it to seal it off with limmudim, in
order that the wine won't get sour. See the commentators ad loc.
I think it goes very well with the verb XTM, "to seal", in Isa 8:16.
> > All translations identify "limmuday" with "desciples" (NRSV gives:
> "bind> > and BDB.
> up the testimony, seal the teaching among my disciples"), as do
> HALOT
> > Yet it doesn't really fit: if the disciples will get the law, why
> should> > it be *sealed* in them?
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