From Middle English crouchen, variant of croken, from crok, from Old Norse krókr, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gerg-, from Proto-Indo-European *ger-. Compare Middle Dutch kroken. More at crook.
From Middle English crouche, cruche, from Old English crūċ ("cross"). Compare Old Saxon krūci ("cross"), Old High German krūzi ("cross"). cross, and crux.
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