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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1901, 1997
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CRANSH, v. Also cranch. To crunch (Kcb.10 1940). Variant of Eng. craunch, id. (last quot. in N.E.D. 1864).Gall.(D) 1901 Trotter Gall. Gossip 230:
It joost cransh't them up like as many carrots, and that wus the end o' them.Uls. 1997 Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes (1998) 213:
She lifted her apple and, without thinking, was going to rub it clean on her lapel when she realised she was naked. She smiled and bit into it. Cranching was a Scots word she'd come across for eating hard fruit. So exact, so descriptive - no English word could get near it.
