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crome

crome noun: 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. Also the plural of croma.

Noun

crome (plural cromes)

  1. (East-Anglia, UK) 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.
    • … a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.1975 [1956], George Ewart Evans, Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay, London: Faber and Faber, page 122

Verb

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

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

Proper noun capitalized: Crome

Crome

  1. A surname.

Also used as

crome is also the plural of croma.

crome is also the alternative form of croma.

Forms of crome

Noun
pluralcromes
Verb
third-person singular presentcromes
present participlecroming
past participlecromed
pastcromed

Origin of crome

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

Words formed from crome

Words that rhyme with crome

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Questions about crome

What does crome mean?
Crome means 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.
What part of speech is crome?
Crome can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of crome?
The plural of crome is cromes.

Words near crome in the dictionary

  1. crombecs
  2. Cromberg
  3. Crombie
  4. Crombies
  5. Cromdale
  6. crome
  7. Crome syndrome
  8. cromed
  9. Cromer
  10. Cromerian
  11. cromes

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