crome noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •(UK) A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.… a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches. — 1975 verb1 •(UK) To use a crome. formscromed · croming · cromes