CROME

Etymology 1

Noun

crome (plural cromes)

(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.

Verb

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

(UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.

Etymology 2

Noun

crome (plural cromes)

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

Anagrams

• Comer, comer

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.

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