English Explanatory Dictionary

croche

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler, or as the predevelopmental stage of the antler.

Word forms

croche croches

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French croche, equivalent to English crochet (“hook”), croc (“hook”), from Frankish *krok (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krukaz, *krōkaz (“something bent, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, wind”). Cognate with Old Norse krókr (“hook”).

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