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▪ I. † croche, n.1 Obs.
Also 5–6 crotche, crowche, 6 cruche.
[Etymologically the same as croce, crose; croche being the Old Northern French equivalent of Central OF. croce. The form crowche is perh. a phonetic development (cf. poche, pouch); in cruche there may be a blending with crutch.]
1. A pastoral staff, crook, crosier.
14..Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 721/38 (Nom. Rer. Ecclesiast.), Hoc pedum, a crowche. c1450St. Cuthbert 6249 A biscop..with his croche. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 123/1 Thenne saynt basille..cam to the chyrche and knocked a stroke wyth hys croche. 1490–9Promp. Parv. 104 (H., P.) Croke or schoke [H. c 1490, P. 1499 crotche, 1516 croche], pedum, cambuca. 1536Inv. Whalley Abbey (Trans. Hist. Soc. Lanc. N.S. VII. 107), j crowche of silver and gilt with a staff of silver. 1539Inv. in Burton Mon. Ebor. 144 One cruche-head gilt..the staff of the Cruche, gilt. 1563Bp. Pilkington Burn. Pauls (Parker Soc.) 584 They have not the cruche and mitre as the old bishops had.
2. A stick having a head to lean on; a lame man's staff, a crutch. Cf. crose 2.
In this sense not easily separated from crutch, q.v.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 810/25 Hoc sustentaculum, hoc podium, a croche. c1500Merchant & Son in Halliwell Nugæ Poet. 32 An olde man, wyth crochys twayne.
¶ See also crotch.
▪ II. croche, n.2
[a. F. croche spur on a fruit tree, etc.:—Rom. *crocca: cf. med.L. crocha hook (Du Cange); from same radical as croc1.]
One of the ‘buds’ or knobs at the top of a stag's horn.
1575Turberv. Venerie 54 These litle buddes or broches which are about the toppe are called Croches. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis i. (Arb.) 23 Chiefe stags vpbearing croches high from the antlier hauted. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 93/1 The hornes haue many dogmaticall Epithites, as..the Burs, the Pearles, the Antliers..and the Croches. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. ii. v. 325. 1884 Jefferies Red Deer iv. 71.
▪ III. † croche, v. Obs.
[a. F. crocher to hook, catch with hooks or claws (f. croche); and aphetic form of acroche, accroach.]
1. trans. To hook, catch with hooks.
a1225Juliana 35 Make me war and wite me wið his crefti crokes, þat ha me ne crochen [printed crechen].
2. = accroach, encroach.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 139 Pharisees..haue crochid to þem þe chesynge of many heerdis in þe chirche. 1592Manch. Court Leet Rec. (1885) II. 60 Roberte Janye hathe Croched..vppon the hye..streete.
▪ IV. croche
obs. form of crotch, crouch v. |