Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.76 in modern English

Syllables: crome
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

British usage

verb

To use a crome.

British usage

noun

plural of croma

noun

Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”).

name

Example Sentences

"… a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Proto-Germanic

Word Breakdown

Root: *krumpaz

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

cromes (plural) cromes (present, singular) croming (participle, present) cromed (participle, past) cromed (past)

Phrases

Crome syndrome

Rhymes With

home go home come home group home rome poem dome chrome foam rom genome jerome

Questions

What does crome mean?: 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.
Where does crome come from?: It is traced to Proto-Germanic.

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