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32 THE DIALECT OF Craddook, said of a woman when confined, but seems not much known. Craig, or Craigh, the craw, or crop, of a fowl. Crag in the eastern oounties is used in the same sense. Crammle (pronounced as written), to twitch, or squeeze, into a small compass. Thus a shoe is cramToUd down at the heeL It also means to hobble, or creep, in walking. Crampy, rheumatic. ' Sho's crampier nor ivrer,' t. e, more rheumatic than eyer. Cranky, in a bad temper. Craps, the renderings of lard. The same as scraps in the south ; but not used for scraps of other thinga Crash, cress. A hawker of this vegetable (1874) was in the habit of caUing out ^ Watter-cr<uA.' Cratoh, the cradle which glaziers use ; also, figuratively, the stomach. It is the name of the cHog^ of table, on which pigs are killed ; and wredU (wrights) use a cratch to chop on. Craw, the pronunciation of the word crow, Crazelty (a as in grass), the same as cranky in the sense of infirm, or dilapidated. It is said of a sick person, or one out of sorts ; and a gate ready to fall to pieces is crazeUy, Creel (called also Beel), a kind of rack, or wooden framework, on whicn the oatcake is placed to dry. It usually hangs suspended from the roof of the kitchen over the hearth. See Bread-reel. Cronck, or Cronk, to sit quiet huddled up in a slinking or crouch- ing way. Halliwell gives it the meaning of * to perch.' Miners and coUiers will ' cronk da&n V th' cabin for a taum, when they come aat o' th» pit.' Croodle, much the same as Cronok. Cropper, a workman in the factories whose business it was to crap, or dress, the cloth with shears. Croppy, proud ; like a cropper pigeon in appearance. Crouse, bold; brave ; lively. As in Peebles to the Play, st 10 : ' Ane spak in wourdis wonder croiM, Adone with ane mischance.* See Cra&sing. Croszle (pronounced crozzil), usually applied to signify a hard cinder found in fomaoes. Halliwell and Hunter both say 'half-burnt coals,' which would here generally be called conks, or cinders. The word, however (as well as Groszlin), is used to signify that kind of cinder which starts out of the fire, and by its resemblance to a coffin, cradle, purse, &c., is supposed to prognosticate certain future events.