crome

noun

1. A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.

   … a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.

Where it comes from

From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry crome (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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