Sc. Also 7 crainroch, 9 cranreugh, cranrach. [app. f. Gael. crann tree + reodhadh freezing; but the Gaelic Dicts. give for ‘hoar-frost’ crith-reodhadh, lit. ‘shaking or quivering frost.’
(The alleged Gaelic cranntarach in Jam. is some error.)]
Hoar-frost, rime. Hence Cranreuchy a.
1682. R. Law, Mem. (1818), 239. No frost at all excepting some crainroch or small frost.
1785. Burns, To a Mouse, vi. To thole the winter’s sleety dribble, An’ cranreuch cauld!
1829. Scott, Rob Roy, Introd. p. xxv. The dhuniewassell’s neck and shoulders … were covered with cranreuch (i.e. hoar frost).
1883. J. Beath, Bishopshire Lilts, 14. The cranrach ’s on the hill.
1892. J. Mather, Poems, 59. The cranreugh grows its hoary plume.
1821. Edin. Mag., April, 352/1 (Jam.). Like the rouky gleemoch in a craunrochie morning.
