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Mohel's rite
Answer for the clue "Mohel's rite ", 4 letters:
bris
Alternative clues for the word bris
Word definitions for bris in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bris \Bris\ n. the Jewish rite of circumcision. Syn: Berith, Brith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Yiddish word for the circumcision ceremony, from bris milah , Ashkenazi pronunciation of brit milah "covenant of circumcision."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (label en Judaism) ritual male circumcision.
Usage examples of bris.
The vid continued to play, with the long-ago Alixanara screaming in terror, Jorge screaming in pain, and the level voice of Karla Longstone urging Len Bris to finish the job.
She went unhurriedly, casting an eye here and there as she passed, to make sure that everything was just so, and came to a halt by Staff Nurse Bris tow, waiting with her bundle of charts under one arm while one of the student nurses hovered with a trolley, equipped with all the odds and ends which might be required on the round.
Mr Grenfell, his registrar, his house surgeon, Hatty Bris tow, the lady social worker, in case Mr Grenfell should require her services, and hovering on the perimeter.
Beatta wasnt at all sure the orange-suited figure running a scanner along the markings on a cargo bin was Bris father, but if it made him happyher breath caught as someone in a tan shipsuit stepped out and hit the orange-suited one over the head.