† cronet, cronett Obs.
A syncopated form of coronet: cf. crownet.
1. = coronet 1, 2.
| 1533 Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 20 A rich cronett..on her hedde. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlviii, That Castill from a Cronet leapt, thinks manie Crownes not much. |
2. The head of a tilting spear; usually with three or four spreading points; = coronal n. 3.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 283 b, They haue nat sharpe sperre heeydis, but blunt cronettis. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Cronet, Crognet, is the iron at the end of a tilting spear. (Hence in mod. Dicts.) |
3. Some part of the armour of a horse.
| 1633 Shirley Tri. Peace Introd., Four horses..their..chamfron, cronet, petronel, and barb, of rich cloth of silver. |
4. Farriery. The lowest part of the pastern of a horse; also the tuft of hair growing on this part, and the coronary bone; = coronet 5.
| 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. ii. 214 He hath foure veines about the cronets of his hoofes..called the cronet veines. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 154/1 The Cronet, is the Hair as groweth over the top of the hoof. [Hence in Bailey.] 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Ris, A hard swelling round the Cronet of the Hoof. |
5. Arch. A name for the architrave.
| 1665 J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 7 So hath he the Architraves by two several Terms, viz. overthwart Pieces, and Cronets. |