Crame
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall Scotland
- 2 A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit Scotland
- 1 Archaic spelling of cram. alt-of, archaic
"Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte."
Example
More examples"Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte."
Etymology
From Scots crame, craim, from Middle Dutch kraeme or Middle Low German krame; both from Old High German krām (“merchant tent; tent cloth”), probably ultimately borrowed from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic грамъ (gramŭ, “pub, inn”) or чрѣмъ (črěmŭ, “tent”). Compare West Frisian kream, Dutch kraam, German Low German Kraam, German Kram, Yiddish קראָם (krom), Swedish kram, Icelandic kram.
Variant of cram.
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