crottle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was known and uſed as a dye-ſtuff in the Highlands of Scotland by the name of corkes or crottel, ſome hundred years ago."
- "Not that crotal and white was as humdrum as a simple definition of it as ‘brown and white’ implies. Crotal was the grey lichen which, over hundreds of years, had grown over the moorland rocks particularly"
- "Parmelia omphalodes and P. saxitilis, the “crottles” used traditionally in Britain and Ireland, are sub-alpine lichens in North America."
- "The older people, they knew all about the dyes, and we’d go and gather the crottles [a kind of moss used for dyeing woolens]. I don’t know what you call them here. They were round and you’d scrape them off a rock or stone."
- "The Land Conservancy's lichen is a member of the genus Parmelia or "crottle lichen", and has strap-like lobes pale grayish above and black below. […] Some crottle lichens have been used in Scotland in the dyeing of wool for socks and Harris tweed since the 16th century. They yield a reddish brown color."