crome

From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).

• Rhymes: -əʊm

crome (plural cromes)

1. (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.

crome (third-person singular simple present cromes, present participle croming, simple past and past participle cromed)

1. (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.

crome

1. plural of croma

crome (plural cromes)

1. (music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”)

• Comer, comer

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɔ.me/
• Rhymes: -ɔme
• Hyphenation: crò‧me

crome f pl

1. plural of croma

• cremo, cremò, merco

• cromme, crumme, crume, cromb, crowm, crom, krome

From Old English cruma, from Proto-Germanic *krumô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrum(ə)/

crome (plural cromes or crumen)

1. a crumb; a small piece or portion of food, especially bread
2. the lighter-coloured part of a loaf of bread inside the crust; the interior of a loaf of bread
3. (rare) a diminutive portion or section; a mote

• cromen

• English: crumb
• Scots: crum

• “crǒme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

• Hyphenation: cro‧me

crome

1. inflection of cromar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾome/ [ˈkɾo.me]
• Rhymes: -ome
• Syllabification: cro‧me

crome

1. inflection of cromar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative