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cranreuch Sc.|ˈkranrəx|
Also 7 crainroch, 9 cranreugh, cranrach.
[app. f. Gael. crann tree + reodhadh freezing; but the Gaelic Dicts. give for ‘hoar-frost’ crith-reodhadh, lit. ‘shaking or quivering frost’.
(The alleged Gaelic cranntarach in Jam. is some error.)]
Hoar-frost, rime.
1682R. Law Mem. (1818) 239 No frost at all excepting some crainroch or small frost. 1785Burns To a Mouse vi, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld! 1829Scott Rob Roy Introd. p. xxv. The dhuniewassell's neck and shoulders..were covered with cranreuch (i.e. hoar frost). 1883J. Beath Bishopshire Lilts 14 The cranrach 's on the hill. 1892J. Mather Poems 59 The cranreugh grows its hoary plume.
Hence cranreuchy a.
1821Edin. Mag. Apr. 352 (Jam.), Like the rouky gleemoch in a craunrochie morning. |