Obs. Also 5 crowche, 7 cruch. [f. CROUCH sb.1: cf. CROSS v.]

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  1.  trans. To cross; to sign with the cross.

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a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 728. Heo wið Cristes cros Cruchede hire ouer al.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Miller’s T., 293. I crowche the from elues and from wightes. Ibid., Merch. T., 463. And crouched hem, and bad God schuld hem blesse.

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  2.  To cross with lines, etc. rare.

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c. 1620.  Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 125. Bred greefe hath cruch’t our cheekes with water furrowes.

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