crote
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See also: crôte
Middle English
Alternative forms
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
References
- ^ “crōt(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “crot, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
Scots
Noun
crote (plural crotes)