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Cove(1)

A fellow; a chap [OED]

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crack(1)

Instant [OED]

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crack(2)

Gossip, chat
[The Geordie Dictionary https://www.bedlington.co.uk/forums/topic/4577-the-geordie-dictionary/]

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crambo

The OED gives Crambo "A game in which one player gives a word or line of verse to which each of the others has to find a rhyme"
and also "Rhyme, rhyming: said in contempt"
The Dictionary of Scots Language says that crambo means doggerel and the word is sometimes compounded with -clink, -jingle, -jink

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crammer¹

A lie [OED]

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crazy(1)

Having the bodily health or constitution impaired; indisposed, ailing; diseased, sickly; broken down, frail, infirm. [OED]

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crib¹

To pilfer, purloin, steal; to appropriate furtively (a small part of anything).  Probably originally Thieves' slang [OED]

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crimped¹

Crimp: To compress into small regular folds or ridges; to corrugate; to frill. [OED]

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Crinoline¹

A stiffened petticoat or underskirt made with this material, designed to support the skirts of a woman's dress; (hence) a rigid petticoat worn for this purpose, lined with, or consisting of, a framework of some other material, as whalebone, steel hoops, etc.; a hoop petticoat. It enjoyed greatest popularity in the mid 19th cent [OED] Below is a cutaway view of a crinoline, Punch magazine, August 1856

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crommin¹

Crommin: Crushing

[Bannister, Fred. The Annals of Trawden Forest (1922, R Hyde & Sons, Colne) p59]

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crop(1)

Creep, crept (N.W. England).

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cropped¹

Cropped:- Cut off; cut short; plucked, lopped, pruned. [OED]

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Synonyms - cropp'd¹
cropper¹

Cropper A workman who shears the nap of cloth (The rough layer of projecting threads or fibres on the surface of a woollen or other textile fabric); a cloth-shearer [OED]

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Synonyms - croppers¹
crosses¹

In a general sense: A trouble, vexation, annoyance; misfortune, adversity; sometimes (under the influence of the verb) anything that thwarts or crosses [OED]

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crowner¹

Crowner: coroner - An officer of a county, district, or municipality (formerly also of the royal household), originally charged with maintaining the rights of the private property of the crown; in modern times his chief function is to hold inquest on the bodies of those supposed to have died by violence or accident [OED]

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crown¹

Crown: A coin worth five shillings  or cash to that amount.

12 old pennies = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound

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Synonyms - crowns¹,croon¹
Cuckold's Point(1)

Part of a sharp bend on the River Thames on the Rotherhithe peninsula, south-east London

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Cuckoo Jack

Jack John Wilson (1792 – 1860) was better known as Cuckoo Jack. His nickname came about because his father making cuckoo clocks. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newcastle_Eccentrics_of_the_19th_century

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cup(1)

meaning not known

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cute¹

Acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd. [OED]

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