▪ I. † croo, v. Obs.
(kruː)
[Echoic: cf. coo, crood.]
= crood.
| 1611 Cotgr., Roucoler, to croo like a Doue or Queest. Roucoulement, the crooing of Doues. 1706 Phillips, To Croo or Crookel, to make a Noise like a Dove, or Pigeon. |
▪ II. croo, n. Sc. (and Irish).
Also 7 crue.
[a. Gael. cró sheepcot, wattled fold, hut, hovel, cottage, OIrish cró sty, pen, cote, hovel: cf. crew n.2, also Icel. kró small pen, fold for lambs, which may be from Celtic, and is the source of the Shetland form.]
1. A hovel, hut, or cabin.
| 1570 Tressoun of Dumbartane in Satir. Poems Reform. (1890) 172 The Inglis men raid neir For all your craking, caigit within ane Cro [rime to]. 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss., Croo, a poor, filthy cabin. |
| attrib. 17.. Jacobite Songs, ‘When the King comes’, I may sit in my wee croo house. |
2. A sty.
| 1825 in Jamieson. 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss., Pig⁓croo, a pig-sty. |
3. A fold, a pen for sheep. Shetland.
| 1795 Sir J. Sinclair View Agric. North C. Scotl. App. 29 The proprietors..gather their sheep in folds or what are termed here punds and crues. 1856 E. Edmondston Sk. & Tales Shetland xiv. 173 Driven to small ponds (or croos) for the purpose of being counted, marked [etc.]. 1866 T. Edmondston Shetland Gloss. (Philol. Soc.), Crû, a small enclosure. |