324 PROVINCIALISMS. 



CRAKE (vulg. creeak) ; a crow or rook. 



CPJVKEFEET; arches; orchifes. 



CR AKENEEDLES j fcandix pcfltn venens ; fhep- 



herds needle. 

 CRAMBLES ; large boughs of trees, off which thi 



faggot wood is cut. 

 CRANKY ; checked linnen : * f cranky apron ;" 



a checked-linen apron. 



To CREE ; to feethe ; to pre-boil y as rice, &c. 

 CREEL ; a kind of bier, ufed for flaughtering 



and falving fheep upon. 

 CROFT; a fmall inclofure; larger than a yard 5 



but (mailer than a " clofe." 

 CROOK (pronounced cruke) ; a hook ; as, a " yat- 



cruke ;" a gate hook. 

 CROUCE; pleafed, fatisfied, happy, in good fpi- 



rits. 



To CROWDLE (diminutive of to crowd); to 

 creep clofe together, as children round the fire, or 

 chickens under the hen. 

 To CRUNKLE ; to tumble or rumple, as line 



or other cloaths. 

 CU PROSE; papaver-, poppy. 

 CUSHIA j btracleum fpondylium j cowparfnep. 



