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of potatoes or peats in a corner of de but; see the senses a and b. — In sense of a fold, small enclosure (= krø), kro is found in the obsolete compd. *lambakro (sheep-fold). — O.N. krá, f., a nook; corner.

krobb [krȯb], sb., small enclosure, esp. a) for young cabbage-plants, planti-k., = planti-krø; b) for pigs, and adjoining the sty, grice-k. (Uⁿ.). Prop. a narrow space. *krubba; see the foll. words.

krobb [krȯb], vb., to narrow, confine; to pinch for room. In a special sense: to keep (a child) in check, to k. a bairn; de bairn is never krobbed [krȯbəd], the child is never ruled, always gets its own way. The word is also found in Eng. dial., but in Shetlandic it may be of Norn origin (*krubba); see below krobbet, adj.

krobbek [krȯbək], sb., a crib, box, esp. a) lamb’s crib, a box for holding fodder for lambs (Conn.); b) a wooden box in which bait (esp. limpets) is gathered and kept (mostly square, with gable-shaped ends between which is fastened a string, serving as a handle), bait-k., limpet-k. (= kilpek and kupi). Conn. In Du., occas. (Ireland) krobbi [krȯbi], bait-k. — No., Sw., Fær. krubba, f., a crib, a box for holding fodder; Icel. krubba, acc. to B.H.: a jar, and krubbufat, n., a deep dish, deep bowl. Eng. dial. (and L.Scottish) crub = crib, sb.

krobbet [krȯbət], adj., narrow; confined; pinched for room, = No. krubben, krubbutt, adj.

krobbi [krȯbi], sb., a small hollow, hole in which plants, esp. potatoes, are planted. U.? Edm.: krubbie, a place or hole in which potatoes, etc., are covered up. Prop. confined space, and the same word as krobb and krobbek, sbs.

krod or krodd [krȯd], vb., to cram together (living beings), to crowd; esp. in perf. part. krodded [krȯdəd], krodded op, crowded (with something living), swarming; de room or path was krod(d)ed op wi’ folk. Fo. The word is pronounced diff. from Eng. (and L.Sc.) “crowd”, and can therefore be referred to No. kryda (*krjoda, kruda) or “kroda seg”, vb., to crowd; swarm. No. kroda, f., a crowd. See krodni and krødni, sbs.

kroder [krȯdər], sb., properly a murmur, slight indication of sound, reported in sense of a small piece of news, in the phrase “a k. o’ news”. “Ony [‘any’] k. o’ news de day [‘to-day’]”? Fo. O.N. krytr, m., a gentle sound (a murmur, grumble). Closer in form to the Shetl. word is O.N. krutr, m., given in Fr. as noise, tumult, doubtless, like “krytr”: a murmur, grumble.

kroddins [krȯⁱdɩns], sb. pl., small particles of curd floating in the whey after churning. Papa. In the same sense as the Shetl. word is found No. krodde, m. (prop. grit or small, hard particles floating in a liquid, = krot, n.; also greaves, = krota, f.). Otherwise L.Sc. crouds, cruds, sb. pl., which is Eng. curd(s).

krodni [krȯdni], sb., a crowd, multitude, a k. o’ folk, o’ horses, o’ sheep; in a k. (forming a dense crowd). Fe^e. No. kroda, f., a crowd. See krod(d), vb., krødni, sb., and cf. krøkni (krokni), sb.

kroff, sb., see kruff, sb.

krog [(krog, krɔg) krōg], sb., shelter against bad weather; to tak’ k., to take shelter. See krog, vb., and kroga¹, sb.

krog [krog, krɔg, krōg, krȯg], vb., to crouch (to bend the back) against bad weather, rain or cold; to shelter against bad weather (rain); to k. f(r)ae a shooer [‘shower’]; to