† crokern.
Obsolete. rare.
A cultivator or seller of saffron.
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1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) iii. viii. ii. 57 The crokers or saffron men.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1577- to spaff one's load
- to span farthings
- to spank the monkey
- to spare for
- to spare neither ridge nor furrow
- to spare one's breath to cool one'one's own porridge
- to spare one's breath to cool one's porridge
- to spark off
- to spark on all cylinders
- to speak a different language
- to speak a different language from someone
- to speak a good word for
- to speak a person fair
- to speak a person far
- to speak a word for
- to speak about
- to speak again
- to speak against
- to speak aside
- to speak at one's fingers' end
- to speak at one'the fingers' end
- to speak at rovers
- to speak badly of
- to speak bandog and bedlam
- to speak by the card