crocheteurn.
Obsolete.
‘A porter or common burthen-bearer’ (Cotgrave).
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1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Bv The sayntes of God ledde to the shambles..by vile crochetors or porters.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune iii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Vuuuu3/1 I would have hired Crohieture for two Cardekues.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1579- to come as a surprise
- to come as standard
- to come at
- to come away
- to come back
- to come back to reality
- to come bad, or no, speed
- to come be given with the rations
- to come be under, within, beyond, out of the cognizance
- to come behind
- to come between
- to come by
- to come by the ears
- to come by the lame post
- to come clean
- to come daud
- to come down
- to come down a banker
- to come down a peg
- to come down a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down gulch
- to come down in the world
- to come down like a ton of bricks
- to come down on a person like a ton of bricks
- to come down on like a hundred of brick