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▪ I. cronk, n. dial.|krɒŋk|
[Echoic: cf. Icel. krúnk the raven's cry.]
The croak of a raven; = crunk; in U.S. applied to the cry of the wild-goose.
1878Cumbrld. Gloss., Cronk, the hollow note uttered by the raven when on the wing.
▪ II. cronk, a. Austral. colloq.|krɒŋk|
[Cf. crank a.3 3 and 4.]
Of a horse: unfit to run in a race, or dishonestly run as though unfit; said also of the race. Hence gen., unsound, liable to collapse; also, obtained by fraud.
1891N. Gould Double Event xvii, He'd never ride another ‘cronk’ race, he vowed. 1892Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Nov. (Funk), ‘Cronk’ financial institutions. 1893Herald (Melbourne) 4 July 2/7 (Morris), The word ‘cronk’, Mr. Finlayson explained, meant ‘not honestly come by’. 1900H. Lawson On Track 39 ‘It's always the way!’..‘I knew the beggar would turn up!..And the only cronk log we've had, too!’ Ibid. 157 Generosity isn't understood nowadays, and what the people don't understand is either ‘mad’ or ‘cronk’. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Oct. 20/4 Snip Sinker..was mostly too lazy or 'ad a cronk wrist or a kink in his back when there were big guns on the board. |