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▪ I. † croo, v. Obs.|kruː|
[Echoic: cf. coo, crood.]
= crood.
1611Cotgr., Roucoler, to croo like a Doue or Queest. Roucoulement, the crooing of Doues. 1706Phillips, To Croo or Crookel, to make a Noise like a Dove, or Pigeon.
▪ II. croo, n. Sc. (and Irish).
Also 7 crue.
[a. Gael. cró sheepcot, wattled fold, hut, hovel, cottage, OIrish cró sty, pen, cote, hovel: cf. crew n.2, also Icel. kró small pen, fold for lambs, which may be from Celtic, and is the source of the Shetland form.]
1. A hovel, hut, or cabin.
1570Tressoun of Dumbartane in Satir. Poems Reform. (1890) 172 The Inglis men raid neir For all your craking, caigit within ane Cro [rime to]. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Croo, a poor, filthy cabin.
attrib.17..Jacobite Songs, ‘When the King comes’, I may sit in my wee croo house.
2. A sty.
1825in Jamieson. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss., Pig⁓croo, a pig-sty.
3. A fold, a pen for sheep. Shetland.
1795Sir J. Sinclair View Agric. North C. Scotl. App. 29 The proprietors..gather their sheep in folds or what are termed here punds and crues. 1856E. Edmondston Sk. & Tales Shetland xiv. 173 Driven to small ponds (or croos) for the purpose of being counted, marked [etc.]. 1866T. Edmondston Shetland Gloss. (Philol. Soc.), Crû, a small enclosure. |