a. Perhaps for cralled, crulled, curled.
[Crulled is Devonshire dial., and the author was from Plymouth. Cf. also CRALL v.]
1703. T. N[eve], City & C. Purch., 20. [Balcony Railings] are sometimes made of cast Iron of various Figures in semi Relief, and others of wrought Iron, in crail’d Work, or flourishes, of different shapes, according to … Fancy. [So 1734. in Builder’s Dict., s.v. Balcony. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., 1753 cites Neve’s statement, but reads crail-work, which has thence passed into Arch. Publ. Soc. Dict. (1855), s.v. Crail.]
