2. Noun. (Scotland) skirret, a root vegetable ¹
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Definition of Crummock
1. a stick with a crooked end [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crummock
Literary usage of Crummock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Highways and Byways in the Lake District by Arthur Granville Bradley (1901)
"How charming too is the clean gravelly shore at the head of crummock when you
get there, ... crummock itself is nobly guarded by commanding heights, ..."
2. Highways and Byways in the Lake District by Arthur Granville Bradley, Joseph Pennell (1903)
"How charming too is the clean gravelly shore at the head of crummock when you
get there, visible so far out beneath the lake's pellucid waters, ..."
3. Letters from England by Robert Southey (1814)
"crummock Water. —Lake of Buttermere.—Lakes on th« Friday. THE Lakes which we were
next to explore lay south-west ..."
4. The Lake Counties by William Gershom Collingwood (1902)
"... Backs—Red Pike—The three orders of mountain architecture—Honister Crag and
its quarries—Butter- mere and crummock—The Vale of Lorton—Cockermouth Castle ..."
5. The Angler in the Lake District: Or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing by John Davy (1857)
"... and pretty sure that this would be your feeling, I have ordered the ponies:
and see, they are brought to take us to crummock Water. AMICUS. ..."
6. The English Lake District Fisheries by John Watson (1899)
"... crummock, LOWESWATER SEEING that these three lakes form an irregular chain,
it will be convenient to take them together, especially as they may be ..."
7. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"Buttermere and crummock Water come into view as we descend. The fells rising
above them (named from left to right) are High Crag, High Stile, Red Pike, ..."
8. A Concise Description of the English Lakes, and Adjacent Mountains: with by Jonathan Otley (1830)
"The distance between this and crummock lake, is about three quarters of a mile,
comprising some excellent arable land. crummock LAKE is nearly three miles ..."
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