† crannock Obs.
Also 6 crennock, -eke, krenneke, cren-, cryn-, crineoke (all in Shuttleworth Accts. Chetham Soc.).
[See curnock. Formerly often latinized as crannocus, -acus, crannoca.
In Ireland the word was app. identified with the native word crannog (see next), whence in Irish Dictionaries ‘hamper’ appears as one of the senses of the latter.]
The name of a dry measure formerly in use in Wales, the West of England, and Ireland. It varied greatly in different places, and according to the commodity. For corn, the crannock of 2 or 4 bushels is mentioned; for salt it appears to have been much larger.
| 1189–90 Pipe Roll 1 Rich. I, Glouc. 163 Pro D. crannoc' frumenti. 1219 Rot. Claus. 3 Hen. III, m. 2 Rex mandat..Justiciario Hiberniæ ut liberet Regi Manniæ, singulis annis, duo dolia vini et sexies viginti crennoc bladi, pro homagio suo. 1235–52 Rent. Glastonb. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 1, j crannoc frumenti. Ibid. 168 Centum crannocas salis. 1586 in Shuttleworth Acc. (Chetham Soc.) i. 29 Towe krennekes and a halffe of salte at the North Wyche xxxv s. 1591 Ibid. 66 Thrie crynokes and a halfe of salte liiij s. 1603 G. Owen Pembrokesh. i. xviii. (1892) 137 Neither ys the Cranoke or Wey measures used in selling [corn]; but by the bushell onely [see Note]. 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 175 (Ireland) A Cranok of wheat was sold for three and twenty shillings. 1611 Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 139/2 (Ireland) In 1330 a cranoc of wheat was sold for 20s, a cranoc of oates for 8s, a cranoc of pease, beanes and barley for as much. 1815 W. Davies Agric. S. Wales II. 172. |