2. Verb. (third-person singular of crome) ¹
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Definition of Cromes
1. crome [v] - See also: crome
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cromes
Literary usage of Cromes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1869)
"... cromes is the difficulty. Otherwise it seems tolerably clear that the upper
crust was the orthodox part of the loaf. But still it does not appear why ..."
2. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"... that longed after cromes— 280 And jut had he hem nat • for ich Hunger cuide hym—
... 288 Let hem abyde tyl the bord be drawe • ac bere hem none cromes, ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875)
"... in the active concerns of life, and whose sympathies with outside nature were
pretty much confined in one channel—the collection of cromes; that is, ..."
4. The History of Wisbech, and the Fens by Neil Walker, Thomas Craddock (1849)
"... ordered that the Town should p'vided of xxiiij leather buckets, of three large
ladders, three new cromes wtt ropes maid uppon purpose to the same, ..."
5. The River Dove: With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling by John Lavicount Anderdon (1847)
"... high mountains: the two cromes are now behind us, where the flocks and cattle
... cromes you ..."
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