crouchaut, n.m., crotch, floor-timbers of a boat or ship.
croulant, -e, adj., sinking, crumbling, ready to fall, tottering; tumbledown.
croulement (krool-mān), n.m., sinking, falling in or down (of a building); ruin.
crouler, v.n., to sink, to give way, to fall, to fall in, to crumble, to ruin; to go to ruin.
crouler, v.a., (nav.) to launch; (hunt.) to wag (said of stags when they are frightened). Le cerf croule la queue; the stag wags his tail.
☉se crouler, v.r., to fail in an enterprise; (fig.) to sink.
crouli-er, -ère, adj., quaggy, boggy, swampy, moving, shifting (of land).
croup (kroop), n.m., (med.) croup.
croupade, n.f., (man.) croupade.
croupal, -e, adj., pertaining to the croup; croupal.