A variant or alternative spelling of 'croy', referring to a projecting pier or harbor structure.
A dialectal or archaic variant of 'croy', showing the historical variation in spelling before standardization. Common in medieval Scottish documents with multiple orthographies for the same word.
Medieval scribes didn't follow consistent spelling rules—the same word could be 'croy,' 'croyl,' or 'croie' in different documents, which is why historians studying old records often feel like they're solving puzzles.
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