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SHEFFIELD GLOSSARY. 55

CRINK, v. to twist, or wrench painfully.


 * I've crinked my neck.'

CRINK, sb. a twist or bend.

When a man bends a piece of iron by hammering it he is said to crink it.

CRINKLE, v. to rumple.

CROCUS, sb. a red oxide used for polishing cutlery. Hunter's MS.

CROFT, sb. an enclosed piece of ground usually smaller than a close or field. Hunter's MS.

CROGGLE, v. to curdle.

' Yrog-croggle ' is frog-spawn.

CROGGLY, adj. curdled.

' It's all thick and waggly*

CROMWITHEY, in Bradfield. See DAYNE.

CRONK, v. to exult over with insult ; also to stoop over a fire. Also to gossip in a malicious way.

' Shoo's gone a cranking* See CROODLE.

CROOD, v. to curdle.

CROODLE, v. to cling, to nestle, to cling together for warmth. ' To croodle over the fire.' A child is said to croodle to its mother.

CROODLY, adj. cold, chill.

I have heard a child say ' Oh, mother, I feel like a hen, all croodly*

CROOK.

'Great Crook' and 'Little Crook' are fields in Ecclesall, anno 1807. See CROOKES.

CROOK, sb. a hook.

CROOKES, sb. a suburb of Sheffield. Also Crookesmoor.

'Croke. Ungustus et sinuosus, hauynge muche crakes or holowness.' Huloet. There is a place near Sheffield called Hollow Meadows, situated in a narrow valley in which are the reservoirs of the Sheffield Waterworks Company. ' The river Don, at Aluerton (Owlerton), receiueth the Bradfelde water. Then passeth it to Crakes^ and so to Sheffelde castell.' Harrison's England in Holinshed, ed. 1577, fo. 72b. Harrison's Survey mentions ' Crookes towne in Sheffield parish ;' also ' Crookes street. ' ' The crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.' Isaiah xl. 4. 'Darnall Crooked Harrison. ' Crooked acre' in Bradfield. Ibid. Cf. Croxden. Bateman opened a barrow at Crake Low, Tissington. Ten Years' Diggings > p. 37. A Crukton or Croketon is mentioned in the Boldon Book, p. 33. ' lidem tenent inter se moram del Croke* Ibid.) p. xlviii.

CROOKLED or CROOKELT, adj. crooked.