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Ireland, are called _crannogs_, from _crann_, a tree, either because of the timber framework of which the island was formed or of the wooden huts erected thereon.
The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales Edmund Leamy
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Now was a stunted ash, now a rowan-tree with its red berries -- _crann caorthainn_ they call it in
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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If at any time a company of warriors need a ship, give me only my joiner's axe and my crann-tavall [2], and I am able to provide a ship without delay.
The Story of Ireland Emily Lawless 1879
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The only thing I ask them to do is this -- to cover their heads close and keep them covered, while I give the crann-tavall three blows of my axe.
The Story of Ireland Emily Lawless 1879
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MafiaPenguin January 26, 2009 3: 58 PM PST perry-crann January 26, 2009 3: 25 PM PST
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P. 296 col. 2 for dung hill, read dunghill, for chranriy read crann.
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¶¶ The {n} co {m} mys i {n} þe secund kowrs w {i} th mekyll pryde, þe crann {is} & þe heyrrou {n} s, þe bytt {ur} is by þe syde, þe p {ar} trychys & þe plowers, þe wodcok {is} & þe snyt,
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Cronus does not Digitized by VjOOQ IC P I XXX PREFACE. not (ignify Time in this paflfage; crann is a plough, fear crainn a plough*man.
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