crome
verbEtymology From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).
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East Anglia, UK To use a crome.
crome
nounEtymology From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).
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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.1975 [1956], George Ewart Evans, Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay, London: Faber and Faber, page 122: