OriginFrom Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).
- East-Anglia, UKA 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.
“… a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.”
- form-of, pluralplural of croma
- East-Anglia, UKTo use a crome.
Formscromes(plural) · cromes(present, singular, third-person) · croming(participle, present) · cromed(participle, past) · cromed(past)