crome

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Definition of crome

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (East-Anglia, UK)A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
    “… a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.”
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noun

  1. (East-Anglia, UK)A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
    “… a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.”
  2. (form-of, plural)plural of croma
  3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”).

verb

  1. (East-Anglia, UK)To use a crome.

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Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).

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