crome
See also: cromé
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -əʊm
Noun edit
crome (plural cromes)
- (UK, East Anglia) 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.
- 1975 [1956], George Ewart Evans, Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay, London: Faber and Faber, page 122:
- … a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.
Verb edit
crome (third-person singular simple present cromes, present participle croming, simple past and past participle cromed)
- (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
crome
Noun edit
crome (plural cromes)
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crome f pl
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Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English cruma, from Proto-Germanic *krumô.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crome (plural cromes or crumen)
- a crumb; a small piece or portion of food, especially bread
- the lighter-coloured part of a loaf of bread inside the crust; the interior of a loaf of bread
- (rare) a diminutive portion or section; a mote
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References edit
- “crǒme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cro‧me
Verb edit
crome
- inflection of cromar:
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crome
- inflection of cromar: