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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. quotations examples
… 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
third-person singular simple present cromes, present participle croming, simple past and past participle cromed
(UK, East Anglia) To use a crome. examples
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(music) Alternative form of croma (“a quaver”) examples