כְּרֵי, כְּרָא, to dig, bore. Targ. O. Ex. XXI, 33 יִכְרֵי ed. Berl. (oth. ed. יִכְרֶה). Targ. Ps. XL, 7; a. e.—B. Kam. 51ᵃ אמרי ליה זיל כְּרֵי לן ואזל כְּרָא להו (some ed. כָּרָה hebr.) they said to him, go and dig for us, and he went and dug &c. Ib. 48ᵃ כמאן דכַרְיֵיה דמי he is as responsible as if he had dug it. Succ. 53ᵇ בְּרִינָן פורתא וכ׳ we bore only a little and there comes water; a. e.—*Taan. 24ᵃ דהוה כָּרֵיא בהוצא that he was boring a hole in the fence (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note for Var. lect.).—[כרי to be narrow, distressed, part. כְּרִי, כַּרְיָא, pl. כְּרִין, v. כְּרַהּ]