An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 202

Teut. _krull-en_, intorquere, sinuare.

~Crulge~, _s._ A confused coalition, or conjunction, S.

Isl. _krull_, confusio.

CRUMMIE, CRUMMOCK, _s._ A name for a cow that has crooked horns, S.

_Ramsay._

Isl. _krumme_, Gael. _crom_, crooked.

~Crummock~, ~Crummie-stick~, _s._ A staff with a crooked head, S.

_Burns._

CRUMMOCK, _s._ Skirret, a plant, S.

Gael. _crumag_, id.

_Brand._

_To_ CRUMP, _v. a._ To make a crashing noise in eating what is hard and brittle, S.

_Morison._

~Crump~, ~Crumpie~, _adj._ Crisp, brittle, S.

_Burns._

_To_ CRUNE.

V. ~Croyn~.

_To_ CRUNKLE, _v. a._

1. To cress, to rumple, S.

2. To shrivel, to contract, S.

Teut. _kronckel-en_, to wrinkle.

~Crunkle~, _s._ A cress, a wrinkle, S.

CRUNT, _s._ A blow on the head with a cudgel, S.

_Burns._

CRUVE, CRUIVE, _s._ A box resembling a hen-crib, placed in a dam or dike that runs across a river, for confining the fish that enter into it, S.

Su. G. _krubba_, praesepe.

_Acts Ja. I._

CRUTLACHIN, _part. pr._ Conversing in a silly tattling way, S. B.

CUCHIL, CUTHIL, _s._ A forest or grove.

_Douglas._

C. B. _coedawl_, belonging to a forest.

CUCK-STULE, CUKSTULE.

V. ~c.o.c.k-stule~.

CUD, _s._ A strong staff, S.

Teut. _kodde_, a club.

_To_ ~Cud~, _v. a._ To cudgel, S.

~Cuddy-rung~, _s._ A cudgel.

_Dunbar._

CUDBEAR, _s._ The Lichen omphalodes, dark purple dyer's lichen, S.

_Statist. Acc._

CUDDIE, _s._ An a.s.s, often _cuddie-a.s.s_, S.

CUDDIE, CUTH, _s._ The cole-fish.

_Statist. Acc._