Obs. [app. a. Anglo-Fr. *croteyer = OF. *crotoyer, f. OF. crote, crotte dung of hares, etc.] trans. and intr. Of hares, rabbits, etc.: To evacuate their excrement.
a. 1425. Master of Game (Bodl. MS. 546 fo. 13 b). The hare … alwey … croteyeþ yn o manere. Ibid., fo. 26. Þei [bucks] croteieþ hure fumes yn dyuerse maneres.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, E iij a. The hare … fymaes and crotis and Roungeth euermoore.
