† crongen.
Obsolete. rare.
‘A hilt or handle’ (Halliwell).
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1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxii. i. 345 The people go..into their fens and marises with long spits, which they dash here and there vp to the verie cronge into the ground.
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