An archaic or dialectal variant meaning to bend, curve, or crook; to make a curved or hooked shape.
From Middle English and Old English 'croc' or related to crook. The term is primarily Scottish/Northern English and represents an older pronunciation or spelling of crook.
This rare variant shows how English once had multiple pronunciations of similar words—'crook,' 'cruke,' 'crouke'—but only some survived into modern standard English!
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