crome

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See also: cromé

English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (bent, crooked, curved).

Pronunciation

Noun

crome (plural cromes)

  1. (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

crome (third-person singular simple present cromes, present participle croming, simple past and past participle cromed)

  1. (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.

Etymology 2

Noun

crome

  1. plural of croma

Noun

crome (plural cromes)

  1. (music) Alternative form of croma (a quaver)

Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrɔ.me/
  • Rhymes: -ɔme
  • Hyphenation: crò‧me

Noun

crome f pl

  1. plural of croma

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English cruma, from Proto-Germanic *krumô.

Pronunciation

Noun

crome (plural cromes or crumen)

  1. a crumb; a small piece or portion of food, especially bread
  2. the lighter-coloured part of a loaf of bread inside the crust; the interior of a loaf of bread
  3. (rare) a diminutive portion or section; a mote

Descendants

  • English: crumb
  • Scots: crum

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: cro‧me

Verb

crome

  1. inflection of cromar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾome/
  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Syllabification: cro‧me

Verb

crome

  1. inflection of cromar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative