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Trone vs Crone - What's the difference?

trone | crone |

As nouns the difference between trone and crone

is that trone is a small drain while crone is an old woman.

trone

English

Etymology 1

Compare (etyl) trogne a belly.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small drain.

    • Etymology 2

    (lena) trona, from (etyl) (lena) trutina a balance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A steelyard.
  • (UK, dialect, Scotland, obsolete) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar.
    • (Jamieson)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    crone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An old woman.
  • * Dryden
    • But still the crone was constant to her note.
  • An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
  • An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
  • (obsolete) An old ewe.
    • (Tusser)
  • (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • A few old battered crones of office.
  • * Washington Irving
    • The old crone [a negro man] lived in a hovel which his master had given him.

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