Summary: | crunnick n (9) CRONIC. Devine, 15: the stump or bole of a tree, also the roots with bark all gone and whitened by the sun and weather for many years.1 cf. CRANNACH, Dineen, 258 a: a wood, a stake fence; etc. as adj., wooded, woody, fibrous CRANNDA, Ibid: woody, bowed, feeble, shrivel- led. "CRONIC" (also recorded as "cranic", "chronic", "crunick, "kronik") is possibly derived from a fusion of the original meanings of "crannach" and "crannda". "Cranics", Archive item from Heart's Content means "very small firewood".4 PRINTED ITEM Used I and Sup Used I Used I crannick, chronic, cronnick, crunnock, scronnick*, cranny*, croony*, CRAN Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Wed 29 Jun 2016
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