cascrom

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cascrom

/ˈkaskɹəm/

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From Scottish Gaelic, from cas (“foot”) + crom (“crooked, bent”).

noun cascroms · caschrom

Scotland A type of foot plough with a crooked spade component, used in the Scottish Highlands. 1843, James Logan, The Scottish Gaël; Or, Celtic Manners: As Preserved Among the Highlanders, 1st American Edition, page 309, That excellent instrument the cascrom, literally crooked foot, a kind of foot plough, which the Highlanders can manage with great dexterity, and which is too little known,* i

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@misc{cascrom_2026,
  title = {cascrom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cascrom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}