Commentary for Shabbat 197:3

שתי גזוזטראות כו': אמר רב משום רבי חייא עגלות תחתיהן וביניהן וצידיהן רה"ר אמר אביי בין עגלה לעגלה כמלא ארך עגלה וכמה ארך עגלה ה' אמות ל"ל בד' ופלגא סגי כי היכי דלא לידחקו קרשים

IF THERE ARE TWO BALCONIES, etc. Rab said in R. Hiyya's name: As for the waggons, beneath them, between them, and at their sides it was public ground. Abaye said: Between one waggon and another [as its side] there was [the space of] a full waggon. length. And how much was a waggon-length? five cubits. Why was it [this length] necessary: four and a half would have sufficed?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Either for three rows of boards lying on their breadth, which gives exactly four and a half cubits, or for four rows lying on their thickness, thus allowing an additional half cubit to cover the extra space needed for the bars. ');">⁶</span> — So that the boards should not press [against each other].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi: if laid on their breadth. Tosaf: if laid on their thickness, the half cubit being insufficient both for the bars and for freedom of movement of the boards. ');">⁷</span> Raba said: The sides of the waggon<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which includes the thickness of the sides, the wheels which reached up alongside of them, and the space between the wheels and the sides. ');">⁸</span>

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