cruive
(kruːv)
Forms: 5 crufe, 5–6 cruif(e, 5–8 cruve, 8 crove, 4– cruive.
[Originally Scotch (pronounced kr{obar}ːv, kryːv), and retaining its Sc. spelling in sense 4, in which it has passed into legal and general use. The various forms point to an original *cróf-, of which nothing seems to be known. In senses 1 and 2, croo and cruive are synonymous: cf. also crew n.2 Sense 4 suggests connexion with corve, corf and its family.]
1. A hovel, cabin. Sc.
| c 1450 Henryson Fables, Wolf & Lamb (Bannatyne Poems), The pure husband hes nocht But cote and crufe, upone a clout of land. 1725 Ramsay Gent. Sheph. v. iii, I that very day Frae Roger's father took my little crove [rime love]. |
2. A pen for live stock, esp. a pig-sty. Sc.
| c 1575 Balfour Pract. 588 Gif thair be ony swine cruivis biggit on the fore-gait. 1597 Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Creffera, Hara porcorum, ane cruife, or ane swines cruif..quhilk in sum auld buikes is called ane Stye. 1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 648 The neighbours lean over the sow's ‘cruive’ or sty. |
3. A kitchen-garden enclosure. (Orkney.)
| 1876 D. Gorrie Summ. & Wint. in Orkneys v. 160 Plantie cruives—deserted cottage kitchen-gardens. |
4. A coop or enclosure of wickerwork or spars placed in tide-ways and openings in weirs, as a trap for salmon and other fish.
| 14.. Sc. Stat. I. 469 Al þai þat hes cruffis [croas] or fyschingis..or mylnys in watteris quhar the se cumis and gangis. 1599 A. Hume Hymnes, Day Estival, The salmon out of cruives and creels Uphailed into scouts. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. Treat. 139 To execut the Acts of Parliament made anent Salmond fishing, and cruves. 1769 Pennant Tour Scot. (1771) 117 Beneath are some cruives, or wears, to take Salmon in. 1834 Medwin Angler in Wales I. 330 The pool..is too shallow for salmon, who run into the cruives. 1862 Act 25–6 Vict. c. 97 §6 (6) General regulations with respect to..The construction and use of cruives. |