Also cascrome, -croim, casschron. [Gael. cas foot, crom, chrom, crooked.] An instrument of tillage formerly used in the Scottish Highlands, called also ‘foot-plough.’
1806. Gazetteer Scotl., 513. The cascroim or crooked spade is almost the only utensil used by the common class of tenants in labouring the ground.
1808. J. Walker, Hist. Hebrides & Highl. Scotl., I. 170. The cascrome, or crook spade.
1824. J. Macculloch, Highl. Scotl., IV. 297. Dugald who drives at the Caschrom.
1861. Smiles, Engineers, II. 375. An instrument called the cas-chrom—literally the ‘crooked-foot’ … was almost the only tool employed in tillage.
