25 May 2019

crotal

(also: crottle)

noun

Scot any of various lichens used in dyeing wool, esp for the manufacture of tweeds

Word Origin for crotal

Gaelic crotal

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Examples from the Web for crotal

Historical Examples of crotal

It is better, however, to get the shade by altering the quantity of Crotal used.
Vegetable Dyes
Ethel M. Mairet

Thereafter, on cushioned beds were repasts, long and savorous, eaten to the sound of crotal and of flute.
Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern
Edgar Saltus

My father seemed to age perceptibly, reflecting on his companion gone, and he clung to me like the crotal to the stone.
John Splendid
Neil Munro

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25 May – Towel Day. A tribute to Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which states that a towel is ‘about the most massively useful thing that an interstellar hitchhiker can have‘. First held in 2001, two weeks after the death of Adams. Fans carry a towel with them on this day in appreciation of Adams and his work.

25 May 1999 – Bill Morgan, who had been resuscitated after spending 14 minutes clinically dead following a heart-attack, wins a $27,000 car from a Tatts Scratch lotto ticket. During a reenactment of the event for a Melbourne TV station, Bill won $250,000 from a Scratch-It ticket. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBYuxQBSc0o