Crottle

Quick meaning: Crottle is a noun meaning (orignally Scotland) Any of various lichens gathered for dyeing, especially those of the genus Parmelia.

Meaning

(orignally Scotland) Any of various lichens gathered for dyeing, especially those of the genus Parmelia.

Example Sentences

It was known and uſed as a dye-ſtuff in the Highlands of Scotland by the name of corkes or crottel, ſome hundred years ago.

Parmelia omphalodes and P. saxitilis, the “crottles” used traditionally in Britain and Ireland, are sub-alpine lichens in North America.

Not that crotal and white was as humdrum as a simple definition of it as ‘brown and white’ implies. Crotal was the grey lichen which, over hundreds of years, had grown over the moorland rocks particularly

The older people, they knew all about the dyes, and we’d go and gather the crottles [a kind of moss used for dyeing woolens]. I don’t know what you call them here. They were round and you’d scrape them off a rock or stone.

Word Forms

• crottles
• crotal
• crottel

Synonyms for crottle

Depending on context, synonyms include crotal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crotal, raploch, clyack, leverock, skail, cruive.

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