crame

• Rhymes: -eɪm

From Scots crame, craim, from Middle Dutch kraeme or Middle Low German krame; both from Old High German krām (“merchant tent; tent cloth”), probably ultimately borrowed from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic грамъ (gramŭ, “pub, inn”) or чрѣмъ (črěmŭ, “tent”).[1]

Compare West Frisian kream, Dutch kraam, German Low German Kraam, German Kram, Yiddish קראָם (krom), Swedish kram, Icelandic kram.

crame (plural crames)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall
2. (chiefly Scotland) A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit

Variant of cram.

crame

1. Archaic spelling of cram.
   • 1599, William Waterman, “The Fardle of Facions”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation‎, translation of original by Johannes Boemus, archived from the original on 18 February 2009:

     Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte.

• Carme, McRae, cream, crema, macer, recam

• Homophones: crament, crames

crame

1. inflection of cramer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative