crockard

• crokard, crocard, crocarde

From Middle English crocard, from Anglo-Norman crocard/crokard, of uncertain origin.[1] Possibilities include:

• that it is from croc (“hook”), from a Scandinavian language (compare Old Norse krókr (“hook”)) + -ard.[2]
• that it is related to croquier (“break in pieces”)[3]
• that it is a diminutive of Middle English crok (“a crock, a potsherd”).

crockard (plural crockards)

1. (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a debased counterfeit copy of the sterling silver penny of King Edward I, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.

• brabant, pollard, rosary, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle