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▪ I. crotal1|ˈkrəʊtəl|
[ad. L. crotalum, or its F. adaptation crotale: see below.]
1. = crotalum 1.
1850J. Leitch Müller's Anc. Art §388 note, A female Bacchante clattering with crotals.
2. Irish Antiq. Applied to a small globular or pear-shaped bell or rattle, the nature and use of which are obscure: see quots. Also attrib.
[1156John of Salisbury Polycrat. viii. xii, Crotala quoque dicuntur sonoræ sphærulæ, quæ, quibusdam granis interpositis, pro quantitate sui et specie metalli, varios sonos edunt.] 1790Ledwich Antiq. Ireland 243 The Chrotal seems not to have been a Bardic Instrument; but the Bell-Cymbal used by the Clergy, and denominated a Crotalum by the Latins. 1845Proc. R. Irish Acad. 135 A communication..to shew that the article called a crotal..had properly but one disc, and not two, as represented in Ledwich's Antiquities. 1872Ellacombe Ch. Bells Devon 378, I would..confine the term Crotal to those pear-shaped and globular productions, the exact use of which is evidently very doubtful. Ibid 379 Those round crotal bells in figure resemble an apple, and this instrument was evidently intended to make a rattling noise when shaken.
▪ II. crotal2, crottle|ˈkrɒtəl, ˈkrɒt(ə)l|
Also 8 crottel.
[a. Gaelic crotal, crotan a lichen, esp. one used in dyeing.]
A name given in Scotland to various species of lichen used in dyeing: cf. cudbear. attrib. or adj., of the colour of lichen, golden-brown.
1778Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) 818 Lichen omphalodes. Dark purple Dyer's Lichen. Cork or Arcell Anglis, Crotal Gaulis. 1794Statist. Acc. Scot. XII. 113 It [cudbear] was known as a dye-stuff in the Highlands by the name of cookes or crottel some hundred years ago. 1861H. Macmillan Footnotes fr. Nature 116 The dyes she herself prepares, by simply boiling in water..various species of crotal or lichens. 1881in D. H. Edwards Mod. Scot. Poets Ser. iii. 999 When ither dykes Wi' crottle are grown gray. 1901N. Munro Doom Castle iii. 23 Now the tartan's in the dye-pot, and you'll see about here but crotal-colour—the old stuff stained with lichen from the rock. 1907Westm. Gaz. 26 Dec. 2/3 When Autumn wears her crotal gown. 1938L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. xii. 165 He showed me some of the stockings and tweeds—one very fine, thick tweed (two blue, two white and the crotal). 1968Guardian 30 Mar. 10/4 The lichen which makes the rich, rust-coloured dye they call crotal. |