But is it not possible to measure them exactly’?1 — R. Ammi answered, This is a case where he makes it larger.2 Raba said, one can even say that he does not make it larger, but if they3 were placed as the web, he places [the valid covering] as the woof; if as the woof, he places them as the web.4 OR THE LONG BOARDS OF A BED. Can we say that this5 confirms [a statement of] R. Ammi b. Tabyomi, for R. Ammi b. Tabyomi said, If he covered the Sukkah with discarded6 vessels it is invalid? — [No,] as R. Hanan said elsewhere in the name of Rabbi, ‘With the long board and two legs, or with the short board7 and two legs’,8 so here also it may refer to the long board and two legs, or the short board and two legs.9 Where was this statement of R. Hanan in the name of Rabbi stated? — In connection with what we have learnt: boards and the like which is usually larger than the objects between which it intervenes. a ‘vessel’.