cruive

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots cruive, from Middle Scots cruve, crove, from Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos, from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹuːv/

Noun

cruive (plural cruives)

1. (Scotland) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon.
2. (Scotland) A hovel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cruive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cuvier