קֶרֶץ, (קָרַץ) division, partition. Kel. VIII, 6 השאור … והק׳ וכ׳ the leaven and the reptile in it (in the vessel with two compartments), and the squeezed-in partition between them; [Hai Gaon: a piece of dough, v. מִקְרֶצֶת].—Pl. קְרָצִים, קְרָצִין. Tosef. B. Mets. IX, 19 פשתן עד שיעשנו ק׳ ed. Zuck. (oth. ed. קורצין) he that rents (on shares) a field on which to raise flax, must attend to it until he has made it into divisions (piles ready for division into shares).