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Middle English
Etymology
Uncertain. The Middle English Dictionary notes that usage is primarily Northern, and suggests that the word is likely of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse krota (“metal ornament”). The Oxford English Dictionary compares French crotte (“excrement”) and Dutch krot (“mud”), but notes that it is difficult to connect either to crote by meaning or history.
Noun
crote (plural crotes)
- a piece (of something), a particle
1338, Robert Manning, edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, The story of England by Robert Manning of Brunne, AD 1338, published 1887, page 75:& to bataille swyþe þey sette.
Þe kyng was slayn þer wiþ a schote,
Þe host destruyed ilk a crote- Swiftly they set to battle. / The king was killed with a shot, / Every piece of the army destroyed
Descendants
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Scots
Noun
crote (plural crotes)
- archaic form of crottle