crome
See also: cromé
English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊm
Noun
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.
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Verb
crome (third-person singular simple present cromes, present participle croming, simple past and past participle cromed)
- (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.
Noun
crome
- plural of croma
Noun
crome (plural cromes)
- (music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)
Anagrams
- Comer, comer
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrɔ.me/
- Rhymes: -ɔme
- Hyphenation: crò‧me
Noun
crome f pl
- plural of croma
Anagrams
- cremo, cremò, merco
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cromme, crumme, crume, cromb, crowm, crom, krome
Etymology
From Old English cruma, from Proto-Germanic *krumô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrum(ə)/
Noun
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
Related terms
- cromen
Descendants
- English: crumb
- Scots: crum
References
- “crǒme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.
Portuguese
Verb
crome
- inflection of cromar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾome/ [ˈkɾo.me]
- Rhymes: -ome
- Syllabification: cro‧me
Verb
crome
- inflection of cromar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative