Cascrom
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkaskɹəm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cascrom is a noun meaning (Scotland, Highlands) A type of foot plough with a crooked spade component, used in the Scottish Highlands.
Meaning
(Scotland, Highlands) A type of foot plough with a crooked spade component, used in the Scottish Highlands.
Example Sentences
The cascrom, or foot-plough, was at this time unknown in Arran.
The ‘cascrom’, or crooked spade, was the most important tool for agriculture throughout the Western Isles and major parts of the mainland Highlands.
And so complete was the carnage within the gloom of the corrie that never a man of the erewhile friendly crofters returned to work the cascrom within the township of Achnashee.
1866, The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 16: April—July, page 90, The other was the “cascrom,” a very old Celtic implement, intermediate between the spade and the plough.
Word Forms
- cascroms
- caschrom
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caschrom, tusker, crofting, crummock, cruive, scrog.
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