It derives from Old Norse kringla which had the meaning ‘circle’ and the suggestion is that it referred to the circular sweep of a river, a round hill, or any topographic feature of circular shape (EPNE2/7).
An opening left in a wall so that sheep might pass from one field to another; probably a short form of cripple-gap or cripple-hole, words noted much later by Halliwell.
In the Fountains Abbey records ‘crochon’ is one spelling of a word that occurs numerous times in the ‘Expenses of the master of the cattle’, often alongside ‘drape’.
In general this was a small piece of enclosed land but in Yorkshire such enclosures usually adjoined a dwelling house, a point clearly made in a tithe dispute.
In an ecclesiastical context this might be a cloth hanging before the rood but it was more commonly a piece of linen worn across the forehead by women.
Linked with ‘crumb’ in the sense of crooked, almost certainly a reference to the in-turned or ‘curly’ horns of a cow, as in ‘the cow with the crumpled horn’ in the nursery rhyme.
Originally a board or table on which cups and other kitchen items were placed. However, it came eventually to be used of a piece of furniture for holding crockery, a sideboard, and the association with 'cup' was soon lost.