Middle English Dictionary Entry
crou n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crou n. Also crowe, crau. |
| Etymology | From crouen . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
cokkes crou, hane-crau, the crowing of the cock at dawn; at (firste) cokkes crowe, when the cock (first) crows, at dawn; etc.
Associated quotations
- a1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)39 : On þis niht beð fowuer niht wecches..Mid-niht, ðe bilimpeð to frumberdligges; hanecrau [L Galli cantus], þe bilimpeð þowuene men.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)1090 : A luyte bi-fore þe cockes crowe.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.339 : Þe firste cokkes crowe [L a prima galli voce] in þat lond and þe þridde in oþer londes beeþ i-liche fer to fore day.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3675 : I shal at cokkes crowe Ful pryuely knokken at his wyndowe.
- a1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)227 : Hit byfel at cokkes crowe That þe ȝates gune vp to blowe.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)56.145 : Atte ferst kok Crowe.