Obs. Also 6 crennock, -eke, krenneke, cren-, cryn-, crineoke (all in Shuttleworth Accts. Chetham Soc.). [See CURNOCK. Formerly often latinized as crannocus, -acus, crannoca.
In Ireland the word was app. identified with the native word crannog (see next), whence in Irish Dictionaries ‘hamper’ appears as one of the senses of the latter.]
The name of a dry measure formerly in use in Wales, the West of England, and Ireland. It varied greatly in different places, and according to the commodity. For corn, the crannock of 2 or 4 bushels is mentioned; for salt it appears to have been much larger.
1189–90. Pipe Roll 1 Rich. I, Glouc. 163. Pro D. crannoc frumenti.
1219. Rot. Claus. 3 Hen. III, m. 2. Rex mandat … Justiciario Hiberniæ ut liberet Regi Manniæ, singulis annis, duo dolia vini et sexies viginti crennoc bladi, pro homagio suo.
1235–52. Rentalia Glastonb. (Somerset Rec. Soc.), 1. j crannoc frumenti. Ibid., 168. Centum crannocas salis.
1586. in Shuttleworth Acc. (Chetham Soc.), I. 29. Towe krennekes and a halffe of salte at the North Wyche xxxv s. Ibid. (1591), 66. Thrie crynokes and a halfe of salte liiij s.
1603. G. Owen, Pembrokesh., I. xviii. (1892), 137. Neither ys the Cranoke or Wey measures used in selling [corn]: but by the bushell onely [see Note].
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., II. 175. (Ireland) A Cranok of Wheat was sold for three and twenty shillings.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614), 139/2. (Ireland) In the yeere 1330. … a Cranoc of Wheat was sold for tvventy shillings, a Cranoc of Oates for eight shillings, a Cranoc of Pease, Beanes, and Barley for as much.
1815. W. Davies, Agric. S. Wales, II. 172.
