Mesorat%20hashas for Chullin 141:38

ומה כלי חרס המוקף צמיד פתיל שאינו מציל על טומאה שבתוכו מלטמא דאמר מר

If an earthenware vessel that is covered with a closely fitting lid, which cannot prevent the unclean matter that is in it from conveying uncleanness,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., if within an earthenware vessel that was covered with a tightly fastened lid there was an olive's bulk of a corpse, whosoever comes under the same roof as this vessel is rendered unclean, for the unclean matter being compressed in a close space bursts, as it were, the sides of the vessel and the uncleanness breaks through upwards and downwards. Cf. Ohol. VII, 1, XIV, 6.');">²⁵</span>

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