A.covered earthen vessel, wider at bottom than at top, wherein bread was baked by putting hot embers round it, Hdt.2.92 (in form κλιβ-), A.Fr.309, Ar.Ach.86, V.1153, al., Antiph.176.5; “οὕτως εἰμὶ ὡς εἰς κρίβανον” POxy. 1842.7 (vi A. D.); potter's oven, PCair.Zen.271.9 (iii B. C., κλ-).
2. funnel-shaped vessel, used for drawing water, Str.16.2.13 (κλ-).
II. underground channel or vaulted passage, in irrigation works, Sammelb. 7188.17 (ii B. C., κλ-).
2. hollow, cavern in a rock, Ael.NA 2.22.