כַּרְיָא I, same. B. Mets. 105ᵃ (in a tenant’s contract) ואוקים כ׳ וכ׳ and I will place the pile (of my crop) before thee. Y. Maasr. I, 49ᵃ bot. (expl. משיתמרח) מן דו ישפר אפוי דכ׳ from the time he gives shape to the pile; a. e.—Pl. כַּרְוָון, כֵּירָוָון, כֵּירָוָותָא. Targ. Y. Ex. VIII, 10, v. כּוֹרָא. Targ. II Chr. XXXI, 6; 7, sq. (h. text ערמות).
כַּרְיָא I, digging, ditch; well. B. Bath. 8ᵃ רמי כ׳ חדתא וכ׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 80) put on orphans (heirs) the obligation of contributing towards a new ditch. Ib. (הכל) לכ׳ (ד)פתיא וכ׳ (Ms. F. בֵּירָא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) even scholars must lend their services in digging a street-well; B. Mets. 108ᵃ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 60). Ib. 110ᵃ וכרי כ׳ and must do what digging may be required (ditch, well), v. טַסְקָא. Ib. לכ׳ דנהרא for dredging the river (or channel).—*בית כ׳ House of Heaps (Ruins), a cacophemistic change of the name בֵּית גַּלְיָא, v. גַּלְיָא II. Ab. Zar. 46ᵃ; Tem. 28ᵇ (Var. כַּלְיָיאdestruction).—[V., however, גַּדָּא a. גַּלָּא.]—Meg. 6ᵃ בית כ׳ שלהן Ms. M. (ed. במיא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note).