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456, [kȯfəl]. kufl and kofl,, a cowled cloak.

kovl, kovel [kȯvəl],, to k. anesell [‘oneself’], to k. anesell , to dress oneself warmly, to wrap oneself up carefully, about the head; shø [‘she’] her (her head). Also, [kȯfəl]: ,  , closely wrapped up ( about the head). *kufla or *kofla. See the preceding word.

kra [krā],, see * and -tae,

krab [krāb],, a collection of small, worthless objects, small, ill-thriven potatoes; small pieces of peat, ; a lock [‘lot’] o’ k. , (of potatoes). Also a collection of small creatures, small, testaceous animals (very small limpets, patella, unserviceable for bait), small mussels. , (mussel-k.). Sometimes to small fish, disparagingly. — krap,, a) copse; small, stunted trees; b) small, ill-thriven animals (R.).

krab [krāb],, to scrape, to be dragged over an uneven surface while scratching and gripping hold, of an anchor or grapnel, dragged over the sea-bottom; de anchor or dregg (is ). , to scratch, scrape, krabba, , a) to crawl, creep; b) to grab, snatch, scrape (krafsa), krabba,, to creep.
 * krapa?  krafsa and krapsa,

krabbaliri [krab·ali̇̄·ri],, barnacles, lepas anatifera; commonly in on driftwood. The first part of the is, in all probability, krabbi,, handed down in sense of crab, but doubtless originally used in a wider sense of a creeping creature;  krabbe,, a) a crab; b) a small, creeping thing, and and krabba,, to crawl, creep. is possibly the same word as, or cognate with, lira, , a thin cake. Otherwise is found in sense of shearwater, Puffinus (a species of sea-fowl). Other names for barnacles are and “tammi-”, the latter otherwise denoting the sea-fowl puffin, Fratercula arctica. The name “tammi-” for barnacles is due to a comparison of this animal with the beak of the puffin. On the other hand, a comparison with the beak of the shearwater does not agree quite so well.
 * . of barnacles

, a crab, in the verse about the crow and the crab (see Introd.: Fragments of Norn). Now always: crab. — krabbi,, a crab.
 * krabbi, *krabbe [(krabi) krabə],

krabbi [krabi]-lines,, a variety of stringy seaweed, fucus filum. ? (J.I.). Doubtless “creeping strings”; and  krabba, , to crawl, creep; see , Another name for the same variety of seaweed is “-lines”.

krag [krāg],, 1*) a collar. 2) the throat, neck.  kragi, , the collar of a coat. crag, craug,, the neck. In sense 2 the form “craig [krēg]” is now more common in

kraga [krāga],, a black cow with a white stripe round the neck, or conversely. Used as the name for such a cow:. See $n$,

kraga-tae [krā··gatē·],, in a boat: the top of a frame- or cross-timber; a bent piece of wood, which stretches from the end of the cross-beam under a thwart up to the gunwale (antiquated construction). Elsewhere more generally in the abbreviated form: “ [krā]-tae”, now used of a somewhat