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properly speaking, means a ewe whose teeth are worn out; but metaphorically it means any toothless old beldam. (Irish, criona, old; allied to the Greek gerõn, an old man.)
“Take up the bastard; take ʹt up, I say; give to thy crone.”—Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, ii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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