fork
maz.leg is the utensil held during sacrificial boiling and used to bring up meat for the priest.
The attested use is a sacrificial-meat utensil: it is held while flesh boils and is struck into cooking vessels to bring up what the priest takes.
Senses in use
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Utensil for handling sacrificial meat · dominant
In 1 Samuel 2:13, the masculine singular absolute form is held by the priest's youth while sacrificial flesh boils; the APB renders the clause with a "three-toothed fork in his hand." In 1 Samuel 2:14, the same form is struck into a basin, pot, or caldron, and the APB says that whatever "the fork brought up" was taken for the priest.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the utensil as a "three-toothed fork" in 1 Samuel 2:13 and as "the fork" that brings meat up in 1 Samuel 2:14. These are translation renderings of the surrounding clauses.