כְּרִיכָה f. (כָּרךְ) 1) winding around. Tanḥ. Vaëra 4 (ref. to Ber. V, 1) מה … כְּרִיכַת נחש למלכות what led the scholars to place the serpent winding itself around a person side by side with the (Roman) government?; Ex. R. s. 9. —2) bundle, bunch, small sheaf, contrad. to אְלוּמָּה.—Pl. כְּרִיכוֹת. B. Mets. II, 1. Ib. 22ᵇ; a. e.—[Ib. 37ᵇ כְּרֵיכוֹת, v. בֶּרֶךְ.]