'Crink-crank words are long words—verba sesquipedalia—not properly understood. See Proceedings of Phil. Soc. v. 143-8.'—Cope's Hants Gloss.
Crink. A crevice or crack.—N.W.
*Crippender. Crupper harness.—S.W. (Bratton.)
Critch. A deep earthen pan (S.). Also used in Hants. Fr. cruche.—S.W.
Crock. A pot; especially an earthen one (A.B.S.).—N. & S.W.
Croud. See Crowdy.
Croupy down. To crouch down (S.) as children do when playing hide-and-seek.—N. & S.W.
Crow-bells (pl. used as sing.). Scilla nutans, Sm., Wild Hyacinth (H.Wr.).—S.W. This is probably the flower referred to in Aubrey's Wilts, Roy. Soc. MS., p. 126 (p. 52, ed. Brit.), under the same name:—
'In a ground of mine called Swices ... growes abundantly a plant called by the people hereabout crow-bells, which I never saw any where but there. Mr. Rob. Good, M.A., tells me that these crow-bells have blue flowers, and are common to many shady places in this county.'