cronch

Alternative form of crunch.

Or on a Sunday afternoon, if I chanced to be at home, I heard the cronching of the snow made by the step of a long-headed farmer, who from far through the woods sought my house, to have a social “crack;” one of the few of his vocation who are “men on their farms;” who donned a frock instead of a professor’s gown, and is as ready to extract the moral out of church or state as to haul a load of manure from his barn-yard.

One of them thought he had answered me triumphantly, when I asked him if wolves had bones. He said they cronched up bones and all.

Alternative form of crunch.

Only another rock grappled and swung out, and the cronch, cronch of the shovels again.

He eats him cronch, cronch, cronch.

Alternative form of crunch.

It seemed she was much occupied by her devotional services as was suggested by the sound of the cronch and the ringing of the bells every day.

Love that cronch.