† Cronge. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. rare–1. ‘A hilt or handle’ (Halliwell).

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1577.  Harrison, England, II. xxi. (1877), 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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