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▪ I. crome, cromb, n. Now local.|krəʊm, kruːm|
Also 5 croumbe, cromp, 9 dial. croom, craam.
[repr. an OE. *cramb, *crǫmb f. (cf. wamb, womb):—WG. kramba, whence also MDu. and LG. kramme, Du. kram hook, crook (‘kramme, harpago’ Kilian); f. kramb- grade of *krimb-an: see note to cramp n.1]
A hook, a crook; esp. ‘a stick with a hook at the end of it, to pull down the boughs of a tree, to draw weeds out of ditches,’ etc. (Forby). † In early use, also = Claw, talon.
a1400in Leg. Rood 139 Lord send us þi lomb Out of þe wildernesses ston, To fende vs from þe lyon cromp. c1440Promp. Parv. 104 Crombe, or crome [P. crowmbe], bucus [v. r. unccus, arpax]. 1533Richmond Wills (Surtees) 11 A ladyll and a flech crome. 1561Becon Sick Man's Salve 257 Some rent apeaces wt whot burning yron cromes. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 38 A sickle to cut with, a didall and crome For draining of ditches, that noies thee at home. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1804) II. 351 They are drawn out by crombes, forks, &c. 1846Spurdens Suppl. to Forby s.v. Croom. Forby has crome a crook. We have muck-crooms, fire-crooms, mud-crooms, as well as croom-sticks. 1862Borrow Wild Wales I. 231 A thin polished black stick with the crome cut in the shape of an eagle's head. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Craam, an instrument with three curved prongs, used by cocklers to take cockle with.
▪ II. crome, cromb, v. Now local.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To seize or draw with a crook; to hook.
1558T. Phaer æneid vi. R ij, With crokid beake, and croming pawes. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Crome, to draw with a crome. 1868J. Timbs Eccentr. Anim. Creation 48 In 1863..Children described them [Mermaids] as ‘nasty things that crome you into the water’. 1891Blackw. Mag. Mar. 311 We were warned never to go near its edge, lest the mermaid should come and crome us in. |