Definition of "crome"

crome¹

noun
plural cromes
1. (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.
  Quotations
  … a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.
  1975 , George Ewart Evans, Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay, London: Faber and Faber, page 122
verb
third-person singular simple present cromes, present participle croming, simple past and past participle cromed
1. (UK, East Anglia) To use a crome.