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 sb. 3.
1519. 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 armor of a horse.
1633. Shirley, Triumph 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 growth 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.
