Now local. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To seize or draw with a crook; to hook.
1558. Phaër, Æneid, VI. R ij. With crokid beake, and croming pawes.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Crome, to draw with a crome.
1868. J. Timbs, Eccentr. Anim. Creation, 48. In 1863…. Children described them [Mermaids] as ‘nasty things that crome you (hook you) into the water.’
1891. Blackw. Mag., March, 311/2. We were warned never to go near its edge, lest the mermaid should come and crome us in.
