cruive

Borrowed from Scots cruive, from Middle Scots cruve, crove, from Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos, from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /kɹuːv/

cruive (plural cruives)

1. (archaic, Scotland) A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon.

• “cruive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cuvier

cruive (plural cruives)

1. hovel
2. enclosure; fold
3. cruive