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470 kruka,, to crouch down as if going to sit on one’s hams. See ,, and ,

krug$2$ [krūg],, used in fishermen’s tabu- at sea: to sail, of a vessel; I saw a (a boat) .   “rísta krók”, of a ship on the sea: to cut a great curve (krókr,, a corner, nook; a bending, winding).

kruget [krūgət],, crooked; bent; stooping, bent and k., k. fore ower. ; May be partly krókóttr,, bent, crooked, partly a of *kruk or *krúk; kruken,, bent down, crooked, and krýkin [kroi‘tᶊɩn], , bowed.

krugg [krug (krog)],, the uppermost curved part of an animal’s back; de k. o’ de grice; — a bent back; to set de k., to arch the back, to an animal ready to charge and butt. Diverging: “to set de ”, to bend the back against bad weather or when rising from a recumbent posture. — Also or [krugi (krogi), krūgi], and with long u: [krūg]. — [krug, krog]:. [krūg]: [krugi]:, “krūgi” is reported from in the sense first given (de k. o’ de grice); elsewhere more commonly with short u [krugi]. A form [krȯg], also [grȯg], “to set de k. (g.)”, is reported from  — krugg,, a) the uppermost part of the back; b) raised, humped back, The forms with long u [krūg, krūgi] may spring from an original *kruk (  kruk,, a bent person, kruka, , to crouch down as if going to sit on one’s hams, and see  $wg$, ) or may have arisen by a later vowel-lengthening from “krugg”.

krugi$2$,, see ,

krugi$1$ [krūgi],, worm used for bait ; see ,

kruk$2$ [kruk, krūk],, assimilates to krókr,, and  (and ) crook,  The word is commonly used in a sense corresponding to curve,, a k. upo de (the rib of a boat), de k. o’ de dyke (the fence). As a place-name, de Kruk o’ Haverswala (Kwarf$1$, ), name of the bend of a stream. The special meanings of the word in Shetlandic are: 1) knee-timber in the stem of a boat, = . 2) as an ear-mark in sheep: an incision, or a piece cut out of a sheep’s ear; In is to a slanting cut from the edge upwards in a sheep’s ear, to, 3) a nook, corner . In this sense the word is found also in place-names. — Commonly pronounced [kruk] with short u; with long u [krūk] reported from in sense 3. —  krókr, , a bending, winding; a hook; a nook, corner; a narrowing.  $e$,

kruk$1$ [kruk],, the uppermost part of the back of a (slaughtered) animal.  an original *kruk- (or *krúk-) =, ; see further under that word, as well as ,

†krukben [krukben],, collarbone of a halibut, —. ,  hooked bone? a more recent word, the first part of which,, in this case, denotes a pot-hook, crook, because the said bone was hung on the pot-hook over the fire after the fish had been eaten.

kruket,, see $2$ (and ),

kruketi [kruk··əti·],, in definite form, crooked, bent, only handed down in the versified riddle about the meadow and the brook, the former